One day in April 1874, on the banks of the scenic West Lake in Hangzhou, a new Chinese medicine shop opened for business, and a large plaque hung in the middle of the inner hall, which read, "Yes Nai Ren Shu" (乃仁術). The bright face of the door and the magnificent interior all illustrate one thing:
This Chinese medicine shop is not small.
Today, 146 years later, this big deal still stands in Qinghefang, Hangzhou's historical and cultural district, and is known as the best-preserved modern industrial and commercial ancient building in China.
This is the same as Beijing Tongrentang and called "the north has Tongrentang, the south has Qingyutang" - Hangzhou HuqingYutang Medicinal Materials Store.
And its founder is the famous red-top merchant of the late Qing Dynasty- Hu Xueyan.
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The late Qing Dynasty was an important historical node in the development of Chinese medicine.
First of all, from the internal of folk Chinese medicine after the Yuan ming, it is difficult to see the systematic inheritance and development, Chinese medicine has become a kind of "trade" that cats, dogs and dogs can engage in.
As a highly professional profession, doctors could make Chinese medicine at that time do it, without professionalism or professionalism. In the eyes of modern people, the development of traditional Chinese medicine in modern Chinese history is full of magic realism.
How dazzling is this magic realism?
Say some historical details.
Decades later, in the Republic of China, League of Nations Health Minister Rahman visited China.
Rassiman, accompanied by Shen Liren, visited downtown Nanjing.
Rahman saw on the streets of tooth extraction, bloodletting, gua sha, massage, selling pills, burning incense and painting water, and lighting tuberculosis.
Rassiman asked the accompanying Shen Liren: What are these people doing?
Shen Liren said: These people are treating people.
Rassiman asked: What about the local doctors?
Shen Liren raised his eyebrows and said, "That's what you saw."
Rahimán suddenly felt that his intelligence had been insulted, and he smiled and giggled and felt MMP in his heart.
The development of folk Chinese medicine is still like this, but what about the official?
Affected by the Western affairs movement and Western medical ideas, the Manchu Qing court, which was already unable to protect itself at that time, almost stagnated its investment in the development of traditional Chinese medicine.
Since the Yuan Dynasty, China has no official institutions to manage the development of medical and health undertakings, and the imperial court has even to be scavenged from private Chinese medicine institutions.
Are you going to say that the Manchu Qing court at that time did not have the money to fund the development of Chinese medicine?
Of course not.
The official investment in the development of Chinese medicine has no money, and the investment in the development of Western medicine can be rich.
In 1904, there was a church hospital called Shuang flagpole north of Dongdan Arch in Beijing, which was opened by a group of British missionaries.
A British doctor who was working at Shuangqigan Hospital at the time proposed to open a Western medical school in Beijing to train Western medical students.
Old Cixi, who was in the deep palace, heard about this and actually approved 10,000 taels of silver to the British doctor to let him run a Western medical school.
Old Cixi not only paid money to fund this Western medical school, but also gave the official endorsement of this Western medical school.
After the completion of this Western medical school, the then Prince of Qing, Ai Xin Jue Luo Yili, also sent a royal envoy to attend the inauguration ceremony in accordance with the etiquette of the completion of the Western medical school.
Participating in the inauguration of a folk medical institution, the only time in the history of the Chinese royal family, this medical school became the only officially recognized and legal church medical school in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
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And this Western medical school also lived up to expectations and became the origin of the history of modern chinese medicine.
You may have guessed what this Western medical school is, which is today's Union Medical College.
The British doctor who was funded by Empress Dowager Cixi was the first dean of the Union Medical College, Ke Ling.
Would one say that Concordia Medical College was not funded by the Rockefeller Foundation? It was the product of Rockefeller's efforts to exterminate Chinese medicine.
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This kind of rumor Leng Brother was originally too lazy to popularize science.
The Union Medical College was founded in 1906, the Rockefeller Foundation was founded in 1910, and the International Ministry of Health, which is responsible for international philanthropy, was not established until 1913.
What is the real situation?
Due to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, concordia medical colleges actually encountered a serious financial crisis in 1914.
It just so happened that the Rockefeller Foundation sent a delegation to inspect education and health care in China. It was during this expedition that Rockefeller Jr. learned about the dilemmas encountered by Union Medical College.
Then Rockefeller Jr. consulted with Ke Ling, the dean of Union Medical College, and the Chinese Medical Foundation (led by the Rockefeller Foundation) in the United States established an institution called "Peking Union Medical College", and then acquired Ke Ling's Union Medical College to solve the financial difficulties of Union Medical College.
The deal was finally completed in 1917, and then in 1921 the construction of a new teaching building was completed, which led to today's Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
Therefore, the so-called Rockefeller Foundation conspired to exterminate Chinese medicine and invested in the construction of Union Hospital is an outright rumor.
As for the "Truth About the Rockefeller Drug Empire" written by the American Hans Rusk, it is a conspiracy theory like a fake exchange, and it is also an inferior three abuses in the United States. As a result, in China, it has become the "ironclad evidence" of Western medicine to exterminate Chinese medicine, and it is really funny to let a vote of Chinese medicine powder hilarious.
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The story is far away.
The disorderly development of the people and the laissez-faire of the official led to the chinese medicine of the late Qing Dynasty becoming the outcast of the whole society.
Just when everyone abandoned Chinese medicine, Hu Xueyan, a red-topped businessman, stepped forward and founded the HuQingYutang Medicinal Materials Store in Hangzhou.
The name of the shop "Hu Qingyutang" takes the "Hu" character of Hu Xueyan, and "Qingyu" comes from the "Zhou Yi" "Jishan Home, there must be YuQing", when no one cared about the development of Chinese medicine at that time, the national capital opened a Chinese medicine shop, Hu Xueyan can be described as the "retrograde" of that era.
But Hu Xueyan was too rich to stand, and Hu Qingyutang's medicinal materials store far exceeded that of Beijing Tongrentang at that time in terms of scale and quality.
The entire Huqing Yutang medicinal material shop complex covers an area of 3,000 square meters (expanded to 4,000 square meters after the founding of the People's Republic of China), the appearance is shaped like a crane, which is a typical Huipai style, and you can't find a second Chinese medicine hall of this scale in the entire Yangtze River Basin.
As the most important medical aspect of a traditional Chinese medicine management, Hu Xueyan did not adopt the Wu Yousheng Wen Disease School, which was the mainstream of chinese medicine at that time, but adopted the official "Taiping Huimin and Pharmacy Bureau Fang" of the Song Dynasty.
Anyone who has seen Leng Ge's previous popular science knows that "Taiping Huimin and Pharmacy Bureau Fang" is the last edition of the officially led chinese medicine professional technology in Chinese history, which can be said to be the final work of the Chinese royal family for the development of chinese medicine.
Therefore, Hu Xueyan regarded the "Taiping Huimin and Pharmacy Bureau Fang" as the guideline of Hu Qingyutang's medicinal materials store, and what he saw was its royal nature, which was the most authoritative clinical practice tool of traditional Chinese medicine that could be found at that time.
The question is, why did Hu Xueyan set up such a Chinese medicine museum?
The next information comes from the "Zhuang Harmonic Selection" of Wang Kangnian, a "media person" in the late Qing Dynasty, and Leng Ge does not guarantee the authenticity, and everyone can use it as a reference.
Hu Xueyan's hu qingyutang medicinal materials store was definitely not to make money, at that time, Hu Xueyan's business was already very large, qianzhuang pawnshop or something, any one that took it out crushed Hu Qingyutang medicinal materials store.
What is Hu Xueyan doing hu qingyutang medicinal materials store for?
Perhaps full of warm thoughts and lust, Hu Xueyan in his later years suddenly ignored business and began to indulge in female sex.
Wang Kangnian wrote in the "Selected Works of Zhuang Harmony": "Hu Mou, a Hangzhou man, is a rich and feudal monarch, which is rare in recent decades, and absurd luxury is also very common. ”
Hu Mou here is talking about Hu Xueyan.
Wang Kangnian said that Hu Xueyanji's concubines were so many that their names could not be remembered, and every night the maid held a plate full of tooth plates with the names of his wives and concubines written on them, and Hu Xueyan casually flipped a sign, and the maid called the concubines who came to bed in a singing way according to the names on the plates.
As he got older, coupled with a meal of "Hu Rectification", Hu Xueyan gradually became "overly promiscuous and energyless". But Hu Xueyan is good at this mouth, what to do?
Hu Xueyan's method was to apply plaster.
Hu Xueyan believed in the plaster very much, "There are people who offer Kyoto dog skin plaster, and Hu Dezhi is very happy." Before each snap, he had to put a plaster on the fountain cave and tear it off when he was done.
Every day must be a day, a day a day, the dosage of poultices in the Hu family has always been high.
Therefore, in order to ensure quality and supply, Hu Xueyan set up a medicinal material shop for himself, specializing in the production of house supplements and plasters for himself.
If it is done big, simply open it into a medicinal material shop, which has a Huqing Yutang medicinal material shop.
Due to the support of Hu Xueyan's strong financial resources, the level of diagnosis and treatment of Hu Qingyutang Medicinal Materials Store has always been the existence of the head of the Yangtze River Basin, and many local gentry and celebrities have come to visit, even if they do not see a doctor, they are willing to deal with Hu Xueyan through HuQingyutang Medicinal Materials Store.
This is why there is a "Tongren Hall in the north and Qingyu Hall in the south".
Unfortunately, Hu Qingyutang Medicinal Materials Store has the same name as Tongrentang, but it does not have the same fate as Tongrentang.
In 1883, due to the infighting between Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, the bank under Hu Xueyan's name was run. In order to tide over the difficulties, Hu Xueyan had no choice but to sell the Hu Qingyutang Medicinal Materials Shop to the Guangxu Emperor's uncle Wen Yu.
After the subsequent Xinhai Revolution, The Huqing Yutang Medicinal Materials Store changed hands several times and was finally nationalized after liberation.
Today's Huqing Yutang medicinal materials store and even the brand belt factory belong to Hangzhou's Qingchunbao Group. Huqing Yutang Medicinal Materials Store was renamed Huqing Yutang Guoyao, and the former site of Huqing Yutang Medicinal Materials Store on the banks of Xizi Lake was designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit, and expanded to 4,000 square meters and became a museum.
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