Fan Kai's former residence is in the north of Dongtou Road, Dongmen Street, which is a three-room three-entry blue brick courtyard, and only the hall house remains. Fan Kai, a native of Xiuwu Dongmen in the early Qing Dynasty, has a straight character and a line of rocks. Since childhood, he has set great ambitions, and he forgot to sleep and eat when he was a teenager, and he studied hard and angrily, and he was promoted in the township examination in the forty-first year of Kangxi (1702). In the eighth year of Yongzheng (1730), he served as the Tongzhi of Luzhou, Sichuan. There is a place called Luyu in the territory of the jurisdiction, the mountain road is steep, it is difficult to come and go, and the pedestrians are miserable. Fan Kai donated money for this, hired craftsmen to chisel stones for the road more than 100 zhang, natural danger became a thoroughfare, the locals called Fan Highway. There is a river flow turbulent, there is a boulder protruding in the river again, there is often the risk of colliding with the boat here, Fan Kai invited someone to chisel the boulder at his own expense, there is no danger in the boat again, people call it "Fan Gongtan". Fan Kai unfortunately died of illness in office, and the people of Luzhou shed tears to send it off, and the official voice has been praised to this day. 
The hall house of Fan Kai's former residence has a wooden wall at the front wall, a partition door at the front door, and a screen at the back door, similar to the county government lobby. Each room has two load-bearing wooden pillars at the front and back, and the front eaves are about one meter and a half outside, and each room has a load-bearing column to form a front porch. The ground is paved with very flat square bricks of more than one foot square, and the roof rafters are tiled with bricks, then plastered with plaster, and covered with cylinder tiles. The three rooms have no broken walls or partition doors, and the walls are tall, so the space of the house feels significantly larger, and the top and bottom are neat and clean. According to Fan Kai's biography, this house has a history of at least more than 300 years, but it has been well preserved, which shows that the structure of this house, materials and labor are very particular. 
Fan Kai's former residence is inhabited by Fan Kai's descendants. His descendants have preserved the wooden plaque when Fan Kaizhong was raised. This plaque is about one meter eight long, less than one meter high, and has four large characters on it: "Wood looks at the sky". According to the content before and after, it can be inferred that in the forty-first year of Kangxi, that is, in 1702, Fan Kaizhongju, Huaiqing prefect Cui Zhengbi (a native of Changyuan, the grandson of Cui Jingrong, the secretary of the Ming Dynasty, and a real famous family), inscribed the four words "Mutian Chongwang" to show his high hopes. Mutian, referring to the secretary's pavilion and the Hanlin Academy, is a high hope, and these four words are hoped that Fan Kai will enter the scholar and the first as soon as possible and become the pillar of the emperor's reliance. Fan Kai made a four-character plaque and hung it in the hall, which was not only to show off, but also to encourage himself. 
In front of the screen in the middle of the house, there is a table of eight immortals, a pair of Taishi chairs, and a few strips, all of which are antiquities. The legs are carved with the auspicious pattern of the dragon and phoenix, which is exquisite and abnormal. 
The most worthy book is that the northwest corner of the house is placed in the "stepping bed" that only the wealthy families of the official gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have, which can be called a treasure of the old city of Xiuwu. 
"Pull step bed", also written as "eight-step bed", is based on a shelf bed, with a shallow corridor outside, like a house. It first appeared in the Jiangnan region, the richest region of China in the late Ming Dynasty. This bed is generally more than two meters long, wide and high. The records of pulling (eight) step beds in ancient books are probably written as "pulling". Plucking, up, such as plucking turnips. Pulling a step is to lift your legs. Therefore, this kind of bed is also called "stepping bed" in Suzhou, stepping **. The shape of the stepping bed is peculiar and the structure is complex, as if the shelf bed is placed on a wooden platform, and the front edge of the platform grows two or three feet from the front edge of the bed. The four corners of the platform are upright, inlaid with a wooden fence. There are also windows on both sides, so that the bed forms a corridor, although small but people can enter, people step into the corridor as if stepping into the room, the corridor in the middle of a foot, on both sides can be placed small tables and stools, dressers, commodes and lamps, etc. In the past, there was no bathroom, so you could use the toilet without leaving this bed at night, which was convenient and warm in winterGenerally, there is a dresser on one side, so you can dress up directly in the morning, which is very convenient. The environmental space created by the overall layout of this bed type is like a small house in the room, with a floor under the stepping bed and a door railing, which has the meaning of "bed in the bed, cover in the cover". Because of its huge size, it occupies half of the room, and some places call it "half a bed". And because of its huge amount of labor, luxurious workmanship, one person a day for the work, the production is labor-intensive and time-consuming, so the folk also have the metaphor of "thousands of beds" and "ten thousand beds". The "Pull Bed" is the largest and most complex of all bedding types. The emergence of this kind of bed has a certain social and historical roots, it embodies people's aesthetic interest and the fashion of the times, therefore, the pursuit of rich and luxurious new furniture style such as "pull step bed" gradually replaced the previous simple and elegant style. Its emergence and development not only reflects the process of people's material enjoyment and spiritual pursuit, but also reflects the political atmosphere, economic situation and folk customs at that time to a certain extent. Because of its size, it is only suitable for very tall buildings: if it is made of hardwood, the material is so vast and heavy that a bed often weighs a thousand pounds, which is very rare. The carving of the stepping bed in Fan Kai's former residence is exquisite, beautiful, and it is really a boutique among the best. According to Fan Kai's descendants, these furniture are left by the ancestors, and the history is very long. As for why this kind of plucking bed, which is popular in Jiangnan, appears in the Fan family, it may be related to the owner's net worth, experience and interests. 
Fan Kai's former residence is the representative of the official gentry residence in Xiuwu Old City, and Fan Kai is a historical celebrity, and its cultural relics value and artistic value cannot be underestimated. **Baijiayan.