百年中和堂

CENTURY-OLD ZHONGHETANG

中国医药源远流长，自神农开药学之先河以来，经历了数千年的发展历程，为中华民族的生息繁衍做出了巨大贡献。

Taierzhuang "Zhonghetang Drugstore" was founded in Taierzhuang Town by Qiu Defa and was designated as the Teng County Zhonghetang Drugstore in1908(34 th year of the Guangxu Period of the Qing Dynasty). As a famous drugstore in Taierzhuang and surrounding areas, it made a historic contribution to the health of people in the entire district.Since its opening for business,Zhonghetang has always been full of customers. They found the medicine attractive in price and quality, so the store became widely praised and widely-known. Its simple medicine and Chinese patent medicine wholesale business was booming,with employees busy in invoicing,price calculation, payment collection,dispensing and packing, eventually replacing that of the time-honored brand-Renshoutang Drugstore.In March 1938, as the Japanese invader attacked Taierzhuang,Zhonghetang Drugstore was destroyed in the war. In November 1938, Zhang Yukun from Teng County established Dehexiang Drugstore at Taierzhuang Town. In May 1939, Zhonghetang resumed business. However, due to its excessive loss, it gradually gave way to Dehexiang in terms of business.In 1949, there were 25 timehonored TCM stores and 3 western drugstores in Taierzhuang, among which, Zhonghetang and Dehexiang belonged to bigger ones. During the period of joint state-private ownership in January 1956, Zhang Gancai, Manager of Zhonghetang Drugstore, led his 7 employees to join "Taierzhuang State-Private Zhonghetang Drugstore".