Front Gate

Front Gate is the first memorial architecture of the compound in Du Fu's Thatched Cottage. It is facing the Blossom-Bathing Brook, which used to be a river deeper and wider for ships to sail on. Du Fu described this in his poem: “And the boats from Dongwu ahchor outside my abode.” Hanging over Front Gate is a horizontal board inscribed with two Chinese characters (Thatched Cottage) by Prince Guo, the seventeenth son of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. The couplet “to the west of Wanli Bridge, and to the north of Baihua Pond” that flanks the gate is taken from a poem by Du Fu. It indicates the location of the Cottage.

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