Du Fu Memorial Hall

Du Fu Memorial Hall

Dufu memorial hall is located in Shaoling tableland in the east of Weiqu Town, Chang'an District, Xi'an City, about 12 kilometers north of Xi'an city. It was built on the former site of Duke temple in Ming Dynasty. Du Fu, the "sage of poetry" of a generation, once lived here and wrote poems that were passed down through the ages.

Du Fu, a poet

Du Fu (712-770), Zi Mei, was born in duling, Jingzhao. In 712, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty was born in Gongxian County, Henan Province. He began to recite poetry at the age of 7, entered the poetry world at the age of 15, and began to roam since the age of 20, making friends with heroes all over the world. In the fifth year of Tianbao (746), 35 year old Du Fu came to Chang'an with great ambition. The next year, he took part in the system, but unfortunately failed. Since then, he has repeatedly offered poems to princes and Fu to Xuanzong in order to serve as an official, but they have not succeeded and their lives have been in trouble. Later, he moved to the Bank of Shaoling near duling, so he called himself "Shaoling Yelao" and "duling Yeke". Chang'an's hard experience made his poems face the cold reality, and his style turned to depression. After that, he wrote a series of poems concerning the country and the people, such as soldiers and chariots, beauties and people, and five hundred words from Beijing to Fengxian County. In the "an Shi rebellion", Du Fu witnessed the destruction of the mountains and rivers and the social unrest, and wrote such epic works as Chunwang, aijiangtou, Beizheng, Sanli and Sanbie. In the second year of Qianyuan (759), he left Guanzhong and wandered to the southwest. Eleven years later, he died in a foreign land and never returned to Chang'an.

Memorial Hall

Seven hundred years later, in 1526, Zhang Zhidao, a native of Chang'an, felt that the poet Du Fu had no ancestral hall to offer sacrifices and was left out in the cold. He advocated local people to build a Du Gong ancestral hall on the Bank of Shaoling. According to historical records, Duke temple was repaired three times in 1577, 1666 and 1702, and was destroyed by fire in the last year of Qianlong. In the ninth year of Jiaqing (1804), at the initiative of some scholars, the Duke temple was rebuilt at today's address. In more than 100 years since then, the temple of Duke has been repaired many times, including two stone records, one in 1868, the seventh year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and the other in 1886, the twelfth year of Guangxu.

The memorial was completed

After the founding of the people's Republic of China, the government of Chang'an District has repeatedly allocated funds to renovate the Du Gong ancestral hall. In 1960, the Du Fu memorial hall was set up and later renamed the Du Gong ancestral hall management office, which specializes in management. In 1978, the Duke temple was opened to the public and became a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level. In 2009, the name of Du Fu memorial hall was restored.

Du Fu memorial hall is located on the back of Shaoling tableland, facing fan chuanshui, facing Chang'an City in the north and Zhongnan Mountain in the south. The terrain is high and open, which can be viewed from afar. The courtyard has luxuriant flowers and trees, elegant environment, well arranged halls and pavilions, and vigorous ancient trees. After renovation and arrangement, it is open to the public again to commemorate the poet who has made great contributions to Chinese poetry and Chinese culture.

Exhibition room

Under the premise of running through the general idea, the exhibition layout of Dufu museum is divided into the following eight exhibition rooms and special topics according to the current situation of dugong temple

(1) Hall this hall is the main hall, named "poetry hall". The theme is "Du Fu, the sage of poetry", offering a statue of Du Fu to visitors. This exhibition room mainly displays a brief introduction to Du Fu's life and his whereabouts, and selects four representative works of symbolic significance in different periods of his life: "Wangyue", "bingchehang", "Chunwang" and "climbing high", which run through Du Fu's life, so that visitors can have a general understanding of Du Fu.

(2) The theme of the East exhibition room is "the cultural significance of Du Fu". Du Fu is not only a great poet in Chinese history, but also a cultural celebrity with world influence. Du Fu embodies the most outstanding aspects of Chinese traditional literati, such as concern for the country and the people, compassion for the people, etc. his personality spirit is a model worthy of future generations to follow forever.

(3) The theme of the West exhibition room is "Du Fu in Chang'an". This exhibition room mainly shows Du Fu's life and creation in Chang'an. It is arranged according to the time, selected his representative works, with poetic maps, so that visitors can have a detailed understanding of Du Fu's living environment, mood and poetic mood in Chang'an, and then understand the significance of Chang'an period in Du Fu's life.

(4) The theme of this exhibition room is "books and materials about Du Fu". On display are documents, books, picture albums and rubbings of inscriptions of Du Fu studied by scholars of past dynasties for visitors to choose from.

(5) The theme of cave dwelling is "three officials and three farewell"

”。 This exhibition room shows Du Fu's representative works "Sanli" and "Sanbie" written in the second year of Qianyuan (759), focusing on the value of Du Fu's poems in reflecting the turmoil of the times and the suffering of people's livelihood.

(6) The second theme of cave dwelling is "eight songs in autumn". This exhibition room mainly displays Du Fu's representative work "eight songs of autumn prosperity" written in the first year of Dali (766), focusing on Du Fu's artistic attainments of seven temperament and Du Fu's "Chang'an complex" all his life.

(7) The three themes of cave dwelling are "Du Fu's later evaluation". This exhibition room mainly shows the research and evaluation of Du Fu in later dynasties. In the history of Chinese poetry, Du Fu is the most popular poet in the book of songs and songs of Chu. Almost all the poetics from the middle Tang Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty were shrouded in the brilliant light of Du's poems. Understanding Du Fu is a key to understanding Chinese poetry.

(8) The theme of cave four and cave five is "Chang'an: the hometown of Tang poetry", which is the expansion of the theme of Du Fu Memorial. Chang'an is the creation base and communication center of Tang poetry. More than 90% of Tang poets have been here. This unit selects more than ten famous Tang Dynasty poets besides Du Fu in chronological order to show their poetry creation, their experience in Chang'an and their friends with Du Fu.

Tour guide

Bus route: take bus no.323 or 215 from Nanmen to fanjiashizi station, and then take bus no.905 or 917 to yanghucheng cemetery

Address: 26 xinxiwai Street

Longitude: 105.08481282552

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