The thatched cottage will be left to future generations, and the poem will be remembered for thousands of years. Who is the person referred to in the couplet?

Refers to Du Fu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty.

The thatched cottage will be left to future generations; the poet will be remembered for thousands of years. It is a couplet written by Comrade Zhu De when he visited Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu in 1957.

Du Fu (712-770), courtesy name Zimei, was of Han nationality, originally from Xiangyang, Hubei, and later moved to Gong County, Henan. Called himself Shaoling Yelao, he was a great realist poet in the Tang Dynasty. Together with Li Bai, he was known as "Li Du". In order to distinguish them from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, known as "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also collectively known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du".

Du Fu had a profound influence on Chinese classical poetry. He was called the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems were called the "History of Poetry". Later generations called him Du Shiyi and Du Gongbu, and also called him Du Shaoling and Du Thatched Cottage. Extended information

Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum is located at No. 37 Qinghua Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It is the former residence of Du Fu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, when he lived in Chengdu. Du Fu lived here for nearly four years and wrote more than 240 poems. The poet Wei Zhuang in the late Tang Dynasty found the ruins of the thatched cottage and rebuilt the thatched cottage to preserve it. It was repaired and expanded in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

The thatched cottage covers an area of ??nearly 300 acres. It completely retains the architectural layout of the renovation and expansion in the 13th year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1500 AD) and the 16th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1811 AD). The architecture is simple and elegant. The garden is quiet and beautiful, and it is a sacred place in the history of Chinese literature. The Du Fu Memorial Hall was established in 1955 and changed its name to Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum in 1985. ?

The museum is one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, one of the first batch of national first-level museums, a national key protection unit for ancient books, and a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. It is the largest, best-preserved, best-known and most famous tourist attraction in China. The unique relics of Du Fu's whereabouts attract more than one million tourists every year.

Reference: Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum-Baidu Encyclopedia