Travel Notes | Kangwanwan Manor (5)

This is where shopkeepers from various places come back to report their work every year, and the top shopkeeper conducts inspection and acceptance. Imagine the scene where the shopkeeper and the clerks have big calculations and accounts in front of them. It's really like making tens of thousands of dollars a year.

This is the place where the doctor of the Kang family treats the Kang family. What is the use of such a low table?

Looking inside is a traditional Chinese medicine cabinet, a place where you can get medicine after treating illnesses.

This scene is so cute. A child watches a doctor making medicine.

iron product.

Silver chopsticks🥢

There were also reading glasses in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

This is the big stage of the Kang family, where entertainment and money can be made, and this is the backstage. There are ladders for waiting areas.

The saloon room should be the standby room for the Kang family's sedan and carriage service personnel, ready to serve the main family at any time. Now this house has been transformed into a B&B collection hall, where some tea and liquor are sold.

Kangjia Liquor House sells millions of Kang’s wines.

The first steelyard of the Kang family.

Certificate of residence of the royal family of the Qing Dynasty.

Keep animals at home.

The bronze statue depicts the Kang family doing business.

The Kang family's large ships traveled through the waterways for trade. The boat is pretty big.

The coins stored by the Kang family: silver ingots, gold ingots, copper coins, silver notes, gold bars, and silver dollars. What an eye-opener.

Big abacus, Longmen account book. The accounting method is quite advanced.

Large teapot, charcoal stove, the best equipment for roasting sweet potatoes.

Ancestors of the Kang family

The scene of the Kang family welcoming Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi.

The Kang family organized migrant workers to manage the river.

After leaving Kang Wanwan Manor, the impression of the Kang family was still echoing in my mind.
ps: The experience of Kangwanwan Manor ends here, and another chapter will begin tomorrow. Overall impression: The Kang family is a large family that attaches great importance to the study of the younger members of the family, doing business and serving as officials, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, emphasizing family happiness, being prepared for any danger, and valuing the ancestral hall. Kangwanwan Manor, Qiao Family Courtyard, and the Imperial City Prime Minister's Mansion are all exquisite buildings of official and merchant residences during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Readers who are interested in history and ancient architecture will definitely make a worthwhile trip here!