Shanghai Yu Tiancheng Pharmaceutical Co.

Salted vegetable beach in exchange for a large pharmacy in Songjiang Yu Tiancheng Hall Pharmacy was founded in 1782 (47 years of the Qing Dynasty Qianlong), has a history of 227 years ago, can be said to be the earliest history of the Shanghai area of the old surviving drugstore.

Before 1782, the founder of Yu Tiancheng Tang, Yu Youyuan (genealogical name of Cangyi), elaborately pickled pickles and shipped them to Songjiang for sale, and the pickle stall was set up in front of a traditional Chinese medicine store in Changqiaotou. Due to the high quality and low price of his pickles, they were very popular among the local people. He stored the silver taels he sold in this pharmacy. When he was in his fifties, he planned to go home to spend his old age, so he asked the owner of this pharmacy to settle the deposit. The drugstore owner was unable to pay off the principal and interest of the deposit, so he made the drugstore assets against the account and gave it to Mr. Youyuan. You Yuan Gong "mindless willow into a shade", appointed the clan who knows the business of medicinal herbs to come to the management. In order to make the pharmacy a success, he took Yu as his surname and named the store Yu Tiancheng with the meaning of "Tianlu Tongshou, Chengde Changsheng".

YuTianChengTang has a scale when it was first established, set up knife, material, goods room and drink tablets, ginseng and antler department, the wholesale of medicinal herbs has reached ChuanSha, FengXian, JinShan, QingPu, PingHu each place. Because of the Yu Tiancheng Hall in the heart of the patient, everywhere for the sick, credibility is increasing, won the hearts of the people, thus Yu Tiancheng Hall business is booming.

The store passed to the third generation of the eldest grandson Yu Xiuchu (genealogy name Shiben), he was thirteen years old into the Yu Tiancheng Hall student intention (as an apprentice), usually modest to the master and seniors to learn, after many years of study, hard work, not only mastered a variety of medicinal properties, processing, concocting technology, but also the way of running a pharmacy has a unique insight, he believes that the opening of a pharmacy can not only to make money, and that the He believes that the pharmacy should not be opened just to make money, but also believes that the medicines for curing diseases and saving lives should not be allowed to be sloppy. At this time, Yu Tiancheng Hall was already in its heyday, patients from all over the countryside came to Yu Tiancheng Hall to ask for treatment and purchase medicines. Due to the Yu Tiancheng Hall is located near the Songjiang Yue Temple, Yue Temple incense was extremely prosperous, every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar Calendar, neighboring counties, neighboring provinces are a large number of joss stickers on the Yue Temple incense, in the return to their hometowns are often to the Yu Tiancheng Hall to buy the store's more effective proprietary Chinese medicines, bring back to their own use or to share gifts to friends and relatives, which resoundingly "Yu Tiancheng Hall," the signboard is also spreading the sound of the Soviet Union and Hangzhou.

Because of Yu Xiuzhu's outstanding talent, the founder of Hu Qing Yu Tang in Hangzhou, the red-topped merchant Hu Xueyan, hired as the first "Mr. Ah Da" of Hu Qing Yu Tang with a large amount of money in 1874, the thirteenth year of the Qing dynasty's Tongzhi reign. The book "Hu Qing Yu Tang - Chinese medicine culture national treasure" said "so that Hu Xueyan was able to find Yu Xiu Chu ...... is Hu Qing Yu Tang's great fortune, China's great fortune of the cause of Chinese medicine!" Hu Xueyan and Yu Xiuzhu **** with the establishment of the pharmaceutical rules, "the procurement of real, repair and refinement of the system" and the purpose of the store "is a benevolent art, the real price," and Yu Tiancheng Hall founder Yu Youyuan proposed "authentic medicinal materials, repair and refinement of the system, the real price, the children and the old man".

Yu Tiancheng Tang's founder, Yu Youyuan, put forward the "authentic medicinal materials, refined manufacturing, authentic prices, treating the sick and saving lives" as the store's policy, which is in line with the same lineage.

The reason why Yu Xiuzhu can leave Songjiang to go to Hangzhou to show great ambition, mainly because his son Yu Wuqing has been able to take over. Yu Wuqing is the six brothers in the most "smart and capable" one, he arrived at the store early every morning, to see things until after closing time before leaving, under his management, the store and workshop, before and after, well organized. Business was still booming. At that time, Yu Tiancheng Hall in addition to the sale of general Chinese medicine, as well as their own unique secret recipe refined pills and creams, and to "deer and crane" floating figure as a mark.