A few classic Chinese centuries-old store story

Summary: Old names represent traditional Chinese culture, and the survival and development of old names are related to the inheritance and development of traditional culture. By digging up their historical stories, we can let more people understand the old names and feel the charm and value of these enduring names, which is a way for us to protect and inherit the old names. Next, I will introduce you to several stories of classic Chinese century-old stores. The story of a hundred years old store in the story of a few classic Chinese centuries old store

A few classic Chinese centuries old store story

1, Quanjude roast duck ---- attracted a hundred heads of state actually bow

"Quanjude" was founded in 1864 (Qing Dynasty Tongzhi three years). The founder is Yang Shoushan, the word Quanren, Hebei Jixian Yang Jiazhai people. In the early years of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty, Yang Shoushan, who was smart and willing to work, went to Beijing and started to buy and sell chickens and ducks. After a certain amount of savings, he took the store "Dejuquan" on the verge of closure in Qianmen Street, which sold dried fruits, and changed its name to Quanjude, following the words of a fengshui master. At that time, the business of Cheap Place in Mishit Hutong was very prosperous, and the supply of roasted ducks in the stewing oven was not enough to satisfy the demand. Yang wanted to use the method of roasting piglets to roast duck. After many trials, the hanging oven roast duck finally succeeded. Its color and flavor are not inferior to the stewed oven roast duck. After more than ten years of operation, it developed into a famous restaurant in Beijing during the Xuantong and Republic of China years.

The name "Quanjude" has two main meanings: firstly, the word "Quan" stands for Yang Quanren himself, and secondly, "Jude" means to gather virtues and label Yang Quanren himself. Doing business is about virtue. He invited a calligraphy attainments of the showman - Qian Zilong, wrote the "Quanjude" three strong, thick, eye-catching characters, and made a gold plaque hanging on the lintel.

Roasted duck is Quanjude's main business, from the selection of ducks, filling, slaughtering, to barbecue, are meticulous. The Peking ducks chosen by Quanjude are carefully raised for less than 100 days and weigh more than five pounds before they are slaughtered. Duck slaughtered after fading, in the duck's right bladder under a small hole, from this small hole, into the two fingers, the duck's internal organs out, and then wash the duck inside and out with clean water, with the mouth of the duck skin blowing drums with a section of broomcorn millet inserted into the duck's tail, and then from the duck under the bladder of the hole into the water, with a silk thread will be the hole on the sewing. After everything is done, the duck will be hung on the hook into the oven to roast. In this way, outside the grill, inside the boil, duck baked out of the oven, the skin is oil yellow. People eat in the mouth, duck meat is tender, meat fat and not greasy, sweet taste, so that people often eat not tired.

After the death of Yang Shoushan, his son Yang Qingchang and other three brothers continue to operate Quanjude. In the southern city of Tianjin opened the first Quanjude branch. From then on, Quanjude roast duck, reputation in Beijing and Tianjin, famous overseas, "not to the Great Wall is not a good man, do not eat roast duck really regret." It is from the praise of foreign guests, Gali, Nicholson, Heath, Hai Bei Junshu, Lee Kuan Yew, La? Gandhi, Prince Sihanouk and other nearly 200 countries and regions, heads of state, prime ministers and officials have patronized the prestigious Quanjude.

2, Wuliangye wine ---- six hundred years of cellar to leave a new fragrance

Since ancient times, Sichuan and Guizhou more good wine, "Wuliangye" is one of the most famous representatives. Yibin, Sichuan Province is the hometown of Wuliangye wine, and the history of brewing Wuliangye wine can be traced back to more than a thousand years.

Lore has it that winemaking was already popular in Yibin as early as the Han Dynasty. Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, traveled to Rongzhou (present-day Yibin, Sichuan Province) in the first year of the Yongtai Era (765 A.D.), and in the poem "Banquet at the East Tower of Ambassador Yang of Rongzhou," he wrote "Heavy on Bixiuqing wine, light on red-armed lychees". At that time, "heavy green wine" and "lychee green" were both famous wines in the Tang and Song dynasties. The original name of Wuliangye was Mixed Grain Wine, which is said to have been founded in the Ming Dynasty, and the kiln used for brewing wine is a relic of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the system was modeled after the Song Dynasty famous wine Lychee Green method, with a variety of grains with brewing, through successive generations of continuous improvement and development.

In the early Ming Dynasty, a boss surnamed Chen in Yibin, Sichuan Province, created the "Wende Sheep" wine shop, and dedicated research to explore the recipe for mixed grain wine, which was passed down for six generations. During the Qing Dynasty, the last generation of the Chen family had no children, so Chen San taught his apprentice Zhao Mingsheng the secret recipe, and before Zhao died in 1915, he passed it on to his apprentice Deng Zijun. In 1929, Lei Dongyuan, the director of Yibin county regiment training, held a big family banquet one day, and used mixed grain wine during the banquet, which was praised by the audience. Yang Huiquan, a graduate who was sitting in the banquet, said: "This is such a good wine, and the name of this wine is miscellaneous grain wine, which seems to be too vulgar. This wine set the essence of five grains into a jade liquid, why not rename it "five grains liquid"? From then on, Deng Zijun renamed his own mixed grain wine as "Wuliangye".

"Wuliangye" is thus named.1915, Panama Universal Exposition, the world's commodities are beautifully packaged, dazzling. Shanghai "Lichuan East" in front of the booth of the firm, only displayed some of the production of the Yangtze River in the earthenware pots, earthenware crude and ugly appearance of all the people scoffed. Seeing that it is difficult to buy and sell, "Lichuan East" firm of a businessman in a hurry, opened a clay pots, instant aroma, visitors stopped to watch, only to see the pot in the jade liquid crystal clear, sweet and sweet in the mouth, teeth and cheeks, lingering aftertaste. All drinkers are full of praise, from now on can not forget the "China Wuliangye" name. It is this businessman's accidental action, make Wuliangye famous all over the world, won the Panama Gold Medal in one fell swoop, the achievement of a Chinese nation's international brand.

In order to celebrate Wuliangye's winning the Panama International Gold Medal, the "Lichuan East" merchant house also specially made a plaque with colored glass edging and presented it to Deng Zijun, the heir of Wuliangye, with the inscription "The name of Wuliangye is vibrant in China". Since then, "Wuliangye" has won many international and domestic gold medals and the reputation of famous wine, casting 80 years of gold medals do not fall brilliantly, worthy of the divine wine.

What is even more amazing is that, for more than 600 years, the Ming Dynasty crypt cellar fermentation pools of Wuliangye Winery have been in constant use, and these 16 ancient cellars of the Ming Dynasty have become the only existing earliest crypt-type wine fermentation cellars in China after hundreds of years of continuous use and maintenance, and their microorganisms have never ceased to flourish until now, and these 16 ancient cellars of the Ming Dynasty have been in use by Wuliangye until now. This is the treasure of Wuliangye Group, but also a miracle of liquor industry!

3, Zhang Xiaoquan scissors ----- Qianlong Emperor also moved

"Fast like the wind away moist as oil, steel and iron distinguishable varieties of thick, cut the rivers and mountains into embroidery, Hangzhou is more than just like jinzhou." This is China's famous playwright Tian Han visited Zhang Xiaoquan scissors factory in 1966 wrote a poem of praise. Zhang Xiaoquan scissors are characterized by sharp cutting, smooth opening and closing, and easy to feel.

The production of Zhang Xiaoquan scissors has a history of more than 340 years and has been famous since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Zhang Xiaoquan's father, Zhang Sijia, from a young age in the "three knives" famous Wuhu to learn the art, and then in Yixian County, opened a Zhang Dalong "scissors store", the front store behind the home. Zhang Sijia work seriously, he polished scissors, tough and sharp, highly praised by the people. Xiaoquan in his father's careful instruction and their own continuous practice, but also developed a handful of good craftsmanship in the production of scissors. When the Qing soldiers entered the country, his father and son fled to Hangzhou, at the foot of the Wu Shan Dajing Lane, opened the "Zhang Dalong" scissors workshop, to study casting techniques. Scissors in the use of "embedded steel" process, a change in the conventional iron forging scissors, the choice of Zhejiang Longquan, Yunhe steel, but also the use of Zhenjiang's specialty texture of very fine mud carefully ground, so that the scissors shine, the business is exceptionally prosperous. Zhang Xiaoquan son inherited his father's business, due to the production of serious, high quality, coupled with the location of the Qinghefang area, is the center of commerce in Hangzhou, so the business is booming, ten times the profit market. In the second year of the Kangxi period (1663), in order to prevent others from selling scissors under the signboard of Zhang Dalong, he changed the signboard to his own name "Zhang Xiaoquan".

It is said that when Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went to Hangzhou for his second visit to the south of the Yangtze River, he disguised himself, mixed in with the tourists, and walked up the mountain. Just when the tour is strong, the sky is not beautiful, suddenly started raining, had to go down the mountain to find a house to avoid the rain, and in a hurry into a hung with a written "ancestral Zhang Xiaoquan scissors" signboard workshop. Qianlong curious, hand to bring a pair of scissors to see, only to see the cold light flashes, sharp and incomparable, they bought a hand to bring back to the Palace. He liked the scissors, as the palace with scissors. From then on, Zhang Xiaoquan scissors reputation, playing the "Zhang Xiaoquan" brand name scissors, up to 86, there was a "green hills reflecting the blue lake, Xiaoquan full of streets and alleys," the scene.

4, Wu Yutai Tea Village ----- passion for books to generate a good story

Wu Yutai Tea Village was built in 1887 (Qing Guangxu thirteen years), the founder of the Wu Xiqing, Shexian, Anhui Province, Changxi village people. When Wu Xieqing accompanied a man into the Beijing examination, went out with some tea, to Beijing, the man was busy with the examination, Mr. Wu's free time is more, and gradually also and live around the Beijing people familiar with it. To thank his neighbors for taking care of them, he gave them the tea he brought from home. Unexpectedly, these people drank the tea and praised it, and strongly persuaded Mr. Wu to set up a stall to sell tea. A few days later, Wu Xiqing in Beixinqiao Street east of a large doorway set up a tea stall, a few days tea will be sold out.

The careful Wu Xiqing found in the inner city of the most densely populated places, rich and poor, people like to drink tea. Lifted to continue to stay in Beijing after the failure to study hard, waiting for the next section of the re-examination. He sent Mr. Wu back to his hometown in Shexian County to get some silver, Mr. Wu returned to his hometown, riveted, as much as he could to bring back a large number of tea, officially began the tea business in Beijing.

Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Yutai's founder, Mr. Wu, made the business of the tea house bigger and bigger, and opened more than ten stores under the name of "Wu Yutai". Before his death, Mrs. Wu divided all the properties into five equal parts, wrote five notes, let the five sons to draw lots, who caught which will be divided into that part of the property, coincidentally, the five sons from eldest to youngest just order to catch the "benevolence", "righteousness", "propriety", "justice", "honor", "justice", "justice", "justice", "justice", "justice", "justice", "justice", "justice", "justice", "justice", "justice", "rite", "wisdom", "faith". So four, five, six house three brothers will discuss their respective shares of stores, houses and other property re-merge, *** with the residence life, *** with the operation of the business." .

One hundred years, in the history textbooks may be the thickness of a page, but for "Wu Yutai", but the dedication and pursuit of several generations, one hundred years ago, Beijing will say: "Beixinqiao there is an Anhui people opened a tea shop called Wu Yutai." A hundred years later, Beijing will say: "Wu Yutai tea is a necessity of people's lives.

5, Tongrentang pharmacy ----- officials led the fight against the Li ghost

Tongrentang was founded in the Qing dynasty during the Kangxi period, the exact date can not be verified, but no later than 1669. Tongrentang founder surnamed Le, is a Zhejiang Ningbo people, ancestors as early as in the Ming Yongle years came to Beijing, several generations are practicing medicine and selling medicine as a business. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Le Zunyu, a descendant of the Le family, entered the Imperial Hospital and worked as an official. He was determined to improve the quality of traditional Chinese medicine and opened a pharmacy in the polishing factory outside the front gate, and later renamed the "Le Family Old Shop" as "Tong Ren Tang".

Le Zunyu's son Le Wugang failed the countryside examination in the 14th year of the Kangxi period, so he inherited his father's business in Dazhalan to open the Tongrentang pharmacy. Tongrentang front is the store, the back is the workshop, homemade self-sale. Because Tongrentang has always paid attention to the quality of the medicinal materials, and abide by the promise of "although the concoction is complicated, we must not dare to save labor; although the taste is expensive, we must not dare to reduce the material resources", Tongrentang's proprietary Chinese medicines have always had a very high reputation in the market.

From the beginning of the first year of the Qing Yongzheng, Tongrentang began to specialize in providing Chinese medicine for the Imperial Pharmacy of the Qing Dynasty, and even the emperor and the consort ate the medicines produced by Tongrentang, so that the Tongrentang obtained strong support from the court in terms of funding, and sometimes the Qing Dynasty allocated funds to the Tongrentang once enough to use for several years. Tongrentang many times for the palace to do medicine, are first by the Imperial Hospital to the Emperor, and then under the imperial decree to the whole country, ordering all over the good herbs tribute to Beijing. Tongrentang also often under the banner of the imperial court everywhere to buy top quality medicinal materials, so that other pharmacies in the competition at a disadvantage.

Because of the fame of Tongrentang, some foreign merchants will also change the name of their own pharmacy "Tongrentang", so in the Xianfeng, Tongzhi years, the government specially under the notice, claiming that the name of Tongrentang to open a pharmacy all the crimes. Some pharmacies were indeed seized for this reason, and their owners were paraded for three days. In the old days of no economic law, the government for a store so much publicity, can be said to be very rare.