The familiar TV series "The Gate of the Great Mansion" is based on the story of Tongrentang Lejia, the most profound impact is the second grandmother of the female Haojie and her son Bai Jingqi, there are really people in Lejia, the second grandmother is the wife of Lepingquan, the tenth generation of Lejia - Xu Yefen, Tongrentang is the Lepingquan period was retaken by the Lejia; the prototype of Bai Jingqi is the Lejia XII Le Dacong (no. Jingyu), who opened a rubber factory in Jinan and Hongjitang.
Tongrentang in Lepingquan, Xu Yefen's generation is known as the Zhongxing period, the early Tongrentang medicine shop was pushed out, the Lejia as the shop owner can only get 5 hanging money per month, a year is only twenty two silver, simply not enough for a family of old and small expenses, in order to retake Tongrentang, Lepingquan on the one hand to envelop the officials of the imperial court, on the one hand opposite Tongrentang to open Guangrentang, in the business to suppress Tongrentang, after more than ten years of hard work, finally in 1843 to recover the ancestral inheritance.
Le Pingquan had four sons: Le Meng fan, Le Zhong fan, Le Shu Fan, and Le Ji Fan, after the death of The old lady Xu Ye Fenxu, the four sons separated the family, and the four-room condominium model began to be left by the old ancestors until the liberation. During this period, pharmacies were opened in various rooms. Because Tongrentang had counterfeiting incidents in The Great and Secondary during the Guangxu years, it was stipulated that no semicolon should be set up until 1926, when the Nanjing Tongrentang was prepared for political reasons, during this period, the pharmacies opened in the four rooms no longer used the tongrentang brand name, but uniformly used the Lejia old shop name, plus the store name, such as the Lejia old shop DarenTang.
According to statistics, there were 34 pharmacies opened in the four rooms during this period: Le Meng fan has 3 hongjitang, 1 nanjing tongrentang; 5 Lerentang, 4 Hongrentang, a total of 13; Lezhongfan has: 1 Yilingtang; 3 Yongrentang, 1 Huairentang; 1 Peirentang, a total of 6; Le Shufan has: 2 Jirentang, 1 Leshuntang, 1 Hongdetang, a total of 4, Le Jifan has: 10 Darentang, 1 Tree Hall, a total of 11. Among them, The Daren Hall of Le Daren alone accounts for nearly one-third, and one of the many brothers is the largest. It is also because of this that Tongrentang is no longer limited to the Dashilar in Beijing and has opened up a territory of sales throughout the country.