Introduction: Beijing Tongrentang, Nanjing Tongrentang, Darentang, Lerentang, Hongrentang, Hongjitang... Speaking of these long-established brands in the pharmaceutical industry, do you think it is a bit silly and unclear? Where did they come from? Where are you now? Let's explore the past and present lives of these well-known long-established pharmacies.
The story begins with a man from Ningbo Province, Zhejiang Province, named Le Liangcai, who came to Beijing during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty to make a living. Initially, this "LeJia I" lived in Beijing by walking the streets and alleys of the bell and selling small medicines, and later his great-grandson Le Xianyang (Le Jia IV) entered the Chuntai Hospital and founded the Tongrentang Pharmacy, and Xianyang's son Le Fengming (Le Jia V) moved the medicine shop to the south of Dashilar Road in Beijing.
In this way, after several generations of painstaking management by the Lejia family, Tongrentang has a strong brand endorsement of the Qing Dynasty court royal pharmacy "offering", which has social prestige and economic strength, of course, the development process has also experienced many twists and turns and ups and downs, and we will not elaborate here.
The story jumps directly to the beginning of the climax - the tenth generation of the Lejia people, Le Pingquan. He had four sons: Meng Fan, Zhong fan, Shu Fan, and Ji Fan, later known as the "Four Great Houses", and they have always adhered to the lejia ancestral precept "Tongrentang is only this one family, there is no other semicolon." "But with the development of the times and the increasing prosperity of the family population, the Le family is no longer stuck to the old rules."
Beginning with the opening of the Hongjitang Pharmacy in Jinan by Le Dacong, the twelfth heir of the Lejia family during the Xuantong Period (the prototype of Bai Jingqi in "The Gate of the Great Mansion"), others gradually followed suit. There were 11 male adults in the twelfth generation of Lejia, of which 10 successively opened their own or their own pharmacies, and together with the pharmacies opened by the thirteenth generation thereafter, the "Lejia Old Shop" probably opened thirty or forty.
The profile of each room number is as follows:
1. Big room: Lerentang, Hongrentang, Nanjing Tongrentang, Taiwan Tongrentang;
2. Second room: Yiling Hall, Yongren Hall, Hengren Hall, Huairen Hall, Juren Hall, Peiren Hall;
3. Three rooms: Hongji Hall, Le Shun Ji, Hongda (De) Hall, Ji (Ji) Ren Tang;
4. Four rooms: Daren Hall, Shuren Hall.
At that time, Lejia stipulated that the plaque of "Lejia Old Shop" should be hung outside the door of the medicine shop, and the respective hall numbers should be hung in the store, and the words "TongrenTang" should not be used to show respect for the ancestral training.
The author has made a brief comparison of the historical heritage of these stores, as follows:
At that time, the "Lejia Old Shop" opened by the same Le clan people must comply with two regulations: one is to use the Tongrentang ancestral pill scattered cream Dan with the book, and the other is that the shop must hang twelve cursive writings: the upper link "Linglan Secret Teaching", the lower link "Qiongzao New Planting", and the horizontal batch "Lejia Old Shop".
Therefore, each shop is actually a "Lejia new shop" opened in four major rooms, which is the "descendant of Tongrentang". The store names listed at the beginning of the article are all listed in this column. (In particular, Nanjing Tongrentang is a semicolon founded by Le Duzhou, the thirteenth generation of the Lejia family, in order to cooperate with the southward migration of the then Kuomintang government.) Author Cloud:
A "happy" family, stretching out many shops. Intention to help cangsheng, a hundred years of "Tongrentang".
(With the genealogy of the "Le family" After the 10th Dynasty of Jing)
bibliography:
(1) "Qingping Le: Anecdotes of The Founder of Beijing Tongrentang Lejia", Le Chongxi, Oriental Publishing House, January 2013, 1st edition
(2) "National Treasure Tongrentang", Bian Dongzi, People's Publishing House, February 2010, 1st edition
(3) "The History of Tongrentang in Personal Narratives", Ding Yizhuang, Zhang Haiyan, Xing Xinxin, Beijing Publishing Group Corporation, Beijing Publishing House, October 2014, 1st Edition
(4) "Three Hundred Years of The Chinese Medicine Family", Le Mincheng, China Traditional Chinese Medicine Publishing House, April 2012, 1st edition
Source: Medicine those things