Royal pharmacy-tongrentang
There is Tongrentang in the north and Qingyutang in the south. Tongrentang is the most famous old drugstore in China. Since 1723, he has been committed to royal medicine. After the Eight Emperors, it was a veritable royal pharmacy. Accompany a gentleman like a tiger. In the course of more than 300 years, Tongrentang people have formed a rigorous spirit of being meticulous and striving for perfection in pharmaceutical technology.
Year of establishment: 8th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1669)
Founder: Le Xianyang
Anecdote: Le Feng Ming suggested that "real estate can be distinguished by observing elbows. Although the processing is complicated, you won't dare to save effort; Although the taste is expensive, you will not dare to reduce material resources ",and established strict norms. For more than 300 years, the descendants of Tong Ren Tang followed the teachings and controlled the feeding errors of various precious refined drugs below Hui Ke.
Jiangnan yaowang huqingyutang
Hu Xueyan, the founder of Hu Qingyutang, was an extremely wealthy red-crowned crane businessman in the late Qing Dynasty. There is a saying at the end of the street that "Zeng Guofan is a must-read for officials and Hu Xueyan is a must-read for businessmen". Hu Qingyutang is extracted from Zhouyi: If there is a good house, there must be Qing Yu; If you accumulate a bad house, there will be more disasters.
Year of establishment: 13th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1874)
Founder: Hu Xueyan
Anecdote: What makes Hu Qingyutang successful is the word "sincerity". It is said that before running a pharmacy, Hu Xueyan invested heavily in hiring a pharmacy manager. Yu Xiuchu, who applied at that time, proposed that Hu Qingyutang should be built into a world-class pharmacy and dare to lose money for three years. The two men broke away from the honesty of businessmen, and today's Hu Qingyu Hall came into being.
400 years.-Chen Liji.
There are three treasures in Guangdong: dried tangerine peel, ginger and straw grass. The most famous dried tangerine peel comes from "Chen Liji". Xinhui Chenpi is the best raw material of Chenpi. Every year, Chen Liji sends people to buy winter oranges. After you come back, you will put it on the mulou for processing according to the acquisition period, so as to achieve high-quality dried tangerine peel.
Year of establishment: A.D. 1600 (twenty-seven years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty)
Founder: Li Shengzuo
Anecdote: The weather in Lingnan is humid, so how to prevent moisture, mildew and moth to meet the needs of hikers has become the biggest problem. Chen Liji creatively wrapped it in a wax shell, which can keep the medicine unchanged for decades. The appearance of wax-shell pills in Chen Liji also triggered the packaging revolution of traditional Chinese medicine in other traditional Chinese medicine manufacturing industries such as Beijing and Hangzhou at that time, and it was not widely used in the national pharmaceutical industry until later.
Loyal shop-Ye Kaitai
Ye Kaitai listened to his father's instructions: "Yejia Pharmacy opened only for the sake of the country and the people." For more than 300 years, Ye Kaitai's reputation has almost never been challenged. Ye Chenming, the most famous governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was captured by the British army in the Second Opium War, so he committed suicide by taking medicine, safeguarded national integrity and won a great reputation for Ye Kaitai.
Year of establishment: Chongzhen period of Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1637)
Founder: Ye Wenji
Anecdote: Legend has it that one day, a large wooden steamer in the workshop steamed 100 Jin of antler slices and ground them, only to find that a little water left in the cauldron was drunk by a dog in the shop. As a result, the dog was overwhelmed by the medicine, and his right eye was blind. He dug a meat ball from his anus, like a red pomegranate. This is not authentic velvet antler. How can it have such an effect?