Kunhouli Residence in the Alleyway
I am a retired elderly person who enjoys independent travel in unfamiliar cities during leisure time, exploring the human cultural imprints by wandering through streets and alleys, approaching those fading human histories, and appreciating texts with warmth. I don't care whether it's worth it, I just want to avoid missing anything. Four years of travel across 85 cities of various sizes, a journey of 67,550 kilometers across 15 provinces and municipalities, recording 2,052 cultural attractions. These shining imprints are like a marching horn urging me forward.
Kunhouli is located on Sanyang Road, Jiang'an District, Wuhan City. Kunhouli and the Waji Egg Factory in the Waji Road area have a direct relationship.
According to historical records, in 1902, British merchants established Waji Trading Company on Waji Road, primarily engaged in the purchase of chickens and ducks. Due to the high mortality rate of chickens and ducks, the business was not smooth. Later, the company promoted worker Yang Kunshan and Huang Houqing as managers, and the business gradually developed. In 1903, Waji Trading Company bought land to expand the factory, and the two of them jointly built this alleyway on Yuanlu Road, Zhongshan Avenue. The name of the alley was derived from the characters in their names, Kun and Hou.
Kunhouli is located on Zhongshan Avenue, Victory Street, Yuanlu Road and Yuanxialu. On the other side is a unit's courtyard facing Victory Street. The alleyway has five rows of houses arranged in a European terraced building pattern, the first row faces Zhongshan Avenue, all of which are shops, and the later rows have opposite front and back doors, and the last row has a wall in front of the door.
Kunhouli has formed four alleys, with houses on both sides of the alleys and through-street buildings in the middle. Each unit has two black-lacquered large doors, and the door frame of Kunhouli's main gate is made of brick and cement structure with cement facing.
Standing on the road, watching the passing vehicles, the stories in the alley have long become history. The hurried passersby pay no attention to it, only by entering the alley can one feel the vicissitudes of history.
