There is a free memorial hall in Xi'an. The people commemorating here are household names, but this memorial hall has few visitors. This is the Dugong Temple. As an ancient capital with a history of more than 1,200 years, Xi'an is most lacking in cultural relics. Even old Xi'an people cannot know all the cultural attractions, let alone foreign tourists, so few people know about the Dugong Temple. It is lonely.

Du Gong Temple was built in the fifth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty to commemorate the ancestral hall of Du Fu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty. However, when it comes to the memorial hall about Du Fu, the first thing most people think of is the Du Fu Cottage located in Chengdu City. It is true that Du Fu Cottage is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Chengdu, but according to historical records, Du Fu actually only lived in Chengdu for four years and in Chang 'an for thirteen years. The Dugong Temple we see today was renovated several times on the original site. Later generations built an ancestral temple on the Shaoling Plateau where Du Fu lived for a long time. However, it experienced a fire during the Qing Dynasty and was later rebuilt in the ninth year of Jiaqing. There are still six inscriptions on the construction of the ancestral temple.

Du Gong Temple is a quadrange-style building complex. There are three temples in the courtyard. There is a statue of Du Fu in the middle of the "Poetry Temple" in the main hall. There are "Du Fu Footprints" and "Du Fu Chronicle" on the walls of the exhibition room. There are sculptures of Du Fu's friends in the east and west exhibition rooms, namely Li Bai, Gao Shi, Wang Wei and Cen Shen. There is also the only calligraphy treasure handed down by Du Fu in the temple, which is a stone tablet and ink rubbings written by Du Fu. There are also many literati tourists who left poems here. The overall architectural style of Dugong Temple is elegant and atmosphere, and it is full of ink fragrance. It is precisely because Du Fu has lived on the Shaoling Plateau for a long time that he also calls himself a Shaoling cloth. The poetry collection is also named after "Shaoling Collection". There are a large number of brief introductions about the life and deeds of Du Fu, the "poetic saint". This is also the main place for Du Fu's creation. Most of the poems he wrote in his life were written in this unknown small village south of Xi'an.

Dugong Temple is also a rare "Cave Memorial Hall". Because it is located close to Shaoling Plateau, the exhibition halls inside are all built by digging the plateau. The area is not large, but the environment is quiet, quiet and beautiful. In winter, there are three Chimonanthus trees here. The flowers are luxuriant and have a dark fragrance. It is said that these three wintersweet trees are the oldest wintersweet trees in Xi'an. They have a history of more than 300 years. Each tree is more than ten meters high and is very prosperous. There are also century-old sophora trees standing silently here. There are also many poems by Du Fu on both sides of the gate of the ancestral hall, as well as poems about Du Fu's lofty ideals and ambitions. The stone tablets are engraved with poems by ancient and modern poets. The Dugong Temple is currently the only place in Xi'an City that commemorates Du Fu.

Surrounded by Dugong Temple is the thousand-year-old temple Niutou Zen Temple and the Yanghucheng General Cemetery. Even though the transportation here is not convenient, it is still worth visiting.