What fun places are there in Kuanzhai Alley?

Interesting places in Kuanzhai Alley include: Kailu, Demenrenli, Shuanma Stone, Brick Cultural Wall, and Xiaoyanglou.

1. Kailu

Kailu is located at No. 11 Kuan Alley. The courtyard is named Kailu. The door is one of the most iconic door heads in Kuanzhai Alley. The courtyard gate is made of special blue bricks to form an arched house door with a curved protrusion. A traditional Chinese stone plaque is embedded above the door opening. The plaque is engraved with "Kai Lu" in large seal script. The two-character writing method is innovative, which is contrary to the traditional Chinese style at that time. The rule of reading from right to left.

2. Demen Renli

Demen Renli is located at No. 8 Kuan Alley. It is a courtyard where you can experience life in old Chengdu. It truly restores the life scenes of people in western Sichuan on a certain day; It was once one of the filming locations for the TV series "Master Lin in Seoul". Now it is a boutique hotel that fully demonstrates the perfect combination of classical and modern styles in Kuanzhai Alley.

3. Shuanma Stone

The Shuanma Stone is located on the old wall at the gate of No. 32 Zhaixiang, about 1.2 meters above the ground. Already weathered and mottled, it is one of the only three horse-tying stones remaining in Kuanzhai Alley. A hundred years ago, this was the residence of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia in the north and their families, and they had the habit of traveling on horseback. Shuanma Stone is a symbolic expression of northern culture in western Sichuan.

4. Brick Cultural Wall

The "Brick" cultural landscape wall is a 400-meter-long east-west sculpture wall in the well alley. It is the first brick-based sculpture wall in China. In the museum, pieces of old bricks with different historical sections have been built through artistic creation to form platforms, cities, walls, roads, monuments, gates and other historical and cultural fragments of Chengdu, explaining the millennium of Chengdu and interpreting the century-old history.

5. Xiaoyanglou

The Xiaoyanglou is located in Kuanzhai Alley. It has Roman columns, Western-style arched doors and windows, large five-star decorations on the window lattice as Western symbols, wood-carved railings, carved diagonal braces and Hanging and falling are traditional Chinese-style components, and the culture of combining Chinese and Western elements has created the small Western-style building.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Kuanzhai Alley