Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Hu Qing Yu Tang)

Opened to public in 1991, the Museum grew out of the Hu Qing Yu Tang, a famous Chinese pharmaceutical company founded in 1874 by business tycoon Hu Xueyan and which enjoys the same reputation as Beijing Tong Ren Tang. 

Hu Qing Yu Tang inherits a large number of traditional prescriptions recorded in a famous pharmaceutical specification document named Taiping Huimin Heji Ju Fang, which was compiled by official organization in ancient China’s South Song dynasty, in the meantime, it absorbs many other effective prescriptions from famous doctors with rich experiences and excellent skills, to produce different forms of medicine like pills, powders, ointments and pellets. Because of the effectiveness these medicines are popular in China and abroad, and Hu Qing Yu Tang is therefore regarded as “The King of Medicine in Southern China”.