History of Beijing Yushengtang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Yushengtang, founded in the thirty-sixth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1608), is a drugstore and firm that collects traditional Chinese medicine and antiques. The original site was in the east gate of Yuci County, Shanxi Province, and then went to Beijing, Hebei and other places. In the early years of Qing Qianlong, Yushengtang's career reached its peak. The produced Dansan ointment pills are genuine and have a good reputation, which has influenced the northern regions such as Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei and Shaanxi. At that time, the local officials reported the almond virtue of Yushengtang to the court as a local official's achievements, and the emperor Qianlong. From the Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, Yushengtang flourished for nearly 300 years. In the middle of last century, the descendants of Yushengtang began to build the Yushengtang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine, aiming to show the world the precious cultural relics of traditional Chinese medicine used, collected and passed down by Yushengtang people in previous dynasties.

After the 1980 s, fortunately, the country was peaceful and prosperous, and Yushengtang was passed down from generation to generation. After years of preparation, Bai descendants set up the first private Chinese medicine showroom in Beijing on 1998, and then held the "Centennial Exhibition of Chinese Medicine Cultural Relics in Yushengtang" in Tianjin, which was a sensation. 1999, "Beijing Yushengtang Chinese Medicine Museum" was formally established. Since then, Yushengtang has held a century-old advertisement exhibition, an imitation medical case exhibition and a Millennium-old ceramic dog toy exhibition in Beijing Millennium Monument and other places. Yushengtang Museum aims to promote the traditional culture of China and provide a place for China cultural researchers and TCM professionals to appreciate and learn. Chinese medicine culture has been paid more and more attention by people in China and even the whole world. Yushengtang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine gives full play to its resource advantages, holds exhibitions and undertakes various cultural publicity activities of traditional Chinese medicine. Contact and cooperate with many large museums at home and abroad to establish extensive contacts. Planning international exhibitions and exhibitions in large and medium-sized cities in China. Beijing Yushengtang Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine is known as the largest museum of traditional Chinese medicine with the largest collection and the best quality in China. It is praised by experts as "the cultural treasure of traditional Chinese medicine" and "the world encyclopedia of traditional Chinese medicine". It was awarded the title of "Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Publicity and Education Base" by state administration of traditional chinese medicine.