From the poetry of Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, and Tao Yuanming, the thatched cottage has already become representative of those Chinese literati who chose to withdraw from the world and live in communion with nature.
由李白、杜甫、王維、陶淵明等人的詩作來看，「草堂」已然最中國文人避世隱居、與自然相同的一種代表。