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Huqingyutang Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum

: With a history of over 2300 years, Tibetan medicine is a medical system featuring complete...

: The medicinal liquor has enjoyed the fame of "the best drug of all". It is the mixture of...

: The Traditional Chinese Remedy preparation refers to normative remedies, which were produced with...

Located in the original Qinghe Street blocks by the West Lake in Hangzhou, the museum was open to the public in 1991.

The museum is inside the ancient building complex of Huqingyu Drugstore, which has long been honored as "the Medicine House of the South of the Yangtze River". Built by the renowned businessman Hu Xueyan of the late Qing Dynasty in the 13th reigning year of Emperor Tongzhi (1874 AD), the ancient complex is one of the rare commercial buildings of the late Qing Dynasty at home and abroad.

The Medical Culture of Huqingyu Drugstore

Nicknamed "King of Medicine in the South of the Yangtze River", Huqingyu Drugstore was founded on Qinghe Street of Hangzhou in 1874 (the 13th year of Emperor Tongzhi

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Hu Xueyan

Hu Xueyan

Hu Xueyan (1823-1885) was a well-known Chinese businessman active in the 1870s and 1880s. In 1866, he assisted Zuo Zongtang in establishing Fuzhou Ship-Building Bureau. When Zuo was transferred to...
"No Cheating" Culture

"No Cheating" Culture

In the hall of Huqingyu Drugstore, there are two things that have been there since the establishment of the store by Hu Xueyan. The striking things are: 1) the board bearing the characters "zhen bu...