Jintan Town is located on the east bank of Weihe River, which is 0/78km northeast of daming county. According to the Records of Daming County, it was once the Weihe River Ferry, and then it gathered into a village. Because it is located in the floodplain, it was named Tan Xiao. "Tan Xiao Town is in the northeast of the county, 30 miles away, with nearly 10,000 accounts and running water passing by." ("Tanxiao Town Pontoon Bridge") "Weihe River, led by Gu Qing and Qiqi, is Baigou in Han, Yongji Canal in Sui, Yu He in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and Weihe River in Ming Dynasty." (Gifu 'an Lan Zhi) Especially after Emperor Yang Di dredged and dug into Yongji Canal (a part of the Grand Canal), the river transportation was busy and the boats gathered together, gradually developing into a big market town. There are many shops and businesses in this village. Whenever the first, third, sixth and eighth days of the lunar calendar are market days, it can be described as a small episode in two days, a large episode in three days and four episodes in ten days. Just like the name of the village, it is a place where one party gathers gold. The prosperity of river transportation makes businessmen gather here and the towns prosper. The prosperity of Jintan Town was formed in Yuan Dynasty at the latest. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the waste sea was used for water transportation. Once, Tan Xiao Town set up an organization to take charge of water transportation. Because Jintan Town "has Heluo in the south, Zhao Yan in the north, Qilu in the east and Gongsongxing in the west, it is a city rich in people and things". So we set up a division in Jintan Town to supervise the grain transportation in Henan, Dongchangfu (Liaocheng) and Dezhou. Since then, the inspection department has been set up to maintain law and order, and the tax department is responsible for collecting taxes. Because the shallow siltation of the river hindered the water transport, a member of Yuancheng County's main book was added to Jintan Town for full-time dredging of the river. According to villagers, there are 2,000 to 3,000 boatmen guarding the ice every year in Jintan, and there are nearly 100 shops, banks, pawn shops and hotels in the town, which is a prosperous and rich place. In the late Ming Dynasty, due to the invasion of Tatars, Jintan Town, as an important residence of the famous government, began to build stockaded villages, including five stockaded villages: North Gate, East Gate, Southeast Gate, South Gate and West Gate. The base of the wall is three or four feet, and there is a crib on it, which is completely a model of a famous city. After more than 200 years of development, by the Qing Dynasty, the water transportation here was more developed and the commerce was more prosperous. According to the Records of Daming County, during the Tongzhi period, Mao Yunxi, assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, was ordered to go to Yudu Yingyong and take a canoe down the Grand Canal to Tanxiao Town of Daming Mansion. He went ashore to see the bustling town, and didn't want to be heard by local politicians and gentlemen, so he was given a grand reception. The nobles appreciated his calligraphy, dared to make a very extravagant wish, and urged him to write an inscription for the village. But official calligrapher Mao Yunxi never leaves ink easily. He set himself a "three-inseparable principle": no ink, no manuscript and no money. For his calligraphy works, Mao Yunxi is only allowed to "leave two hours on the wall", and there is a saying that "the book is only two hours, the article is only one season, and it is quite difficult to get his inscription." Perhaps Mao Yunxi was moved by the bustling scene of Tan Xiao Town. He was unexpectedly generous and happily agreed to the town's request. When he saw merchant ships shuttling here, shops everywhere, businessmen's business booming and more and more money, he took the meaning of "turning sand into gold" and began to write the words "Jintan Town". Unfortunately, his ink has not been handed down, but the name "Jintan Town" has been handed down, and Tan Xiaozhen has gradually faded out of people's language, and the name "Jintan Town" is getting louder and louder. The main block of Jintan Town is Qinglong Street in the center of the town, winding from Beizhaimen to Nanzhaimen. In 1980s, Zhaimen city wall was demolished, and Zhaimen and Zhaimen remains. The whole street of Qinglong Street has basically maintained the original appearance of the commercial street in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, with shops on both sides and strong ethnic flavor. Entering it so far, there is a feeling of returning to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The ancient buildings in the middle section of Qinglong Street are well-preserved, and the existing cultural relics include Jifu Temple (now Jinbeihui Primary School, with the first yellow inscription in the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse and Chongzhen Dynasties), the mosque in the Yuan Dynasty, the memorial hall, the First Girls' Primary School Hall at the junction of Hebei, Shandong and Henan, the Temple of Fire, the Hubu, the Shanshan Guild Hall, and the ancient shop in the late Qing Dynasty.

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Jintan Town Old Shop: A century-old shop tells a century-old glory. How to continue to develop opportunities?

As a thousand-year-old town, Jintan Town has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and merchants have gathered since ancient times. Walking into Qinglong Street and looking at the rows of shops with blue bricks and tiles here, you may ask carefully: In the past, there was a lot of traffic here, and it was bustling all day, but now these shops are closed. Where did the past prosperity go? How many old shops in Jintan Town have been handed down from history? The answer is regret. At present, nearly 100 shops along the 106 national highway are all "young", not even a century-old shop, and most shops on Qinglong Street are closed, not to mention the ancient firms that have been passed down for hundreds of years. Before the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), there were many shops in the ancient town. According to the old man, there used to be stone lions, stone benches and water tanks in front of shops in Jintan Town. There are couplets on every lintel, from short to long, a dime a dozen. It can be said that it is the crowning touch of the cultural heritage of the ancient town. The carved doors and windows are colorful, and the peony, magpie, plum blossom vase, phoenix unicorn and Shuanglong Pearl are incredible. There are also many zigzag lattices, zigzag lattices, fan lattices and diamond lattices. However, with the eastward movement of the commercial center of Jintan Town and the changes of the times, these ancient shops are gradually declining and disappearing.

For our ancient town, the old shop means the heavy history of the city, the spiritual wealth of several generations, and whether Jintan Town can go further in the future. It is gratifying that in the proposal of daming county Local Records Office on tourism planning and development of Jintan ancient town, the restoration of local old shops in Jintan town has been clearly put forward and put on the agenda, and the time for the rebirth of old shops in Jintan town is just around the corner. Jintan Town has a long history. According to the story of the pontoon bridge in Tanxiao Town, "Tanxiao Town is located in the northeast of the county seat, 30 miles away, with nearly 10,000 registered residents, and water passes through it." "There are Heluo in the south, Zhao Yan in the north, Qilu in the east and Gong Songxing in the west. The boats are full of people, just like a city." Jintan town is located in the north-south traffic artery, and the land and water transportation is also very convenient. Since ancient times, it has been a famous distribution center for various commodities, especially grain. At that time, there were many grain shops and businessmen, which promoted the development of all walks of life. At that time, there were 36 lines in Jintan town, and there were all kinds of shops. According to the old people in the village, there are 2,000 to 3,000 people guarding the frozen boathouses in Jintan every year, and there are shops and banks in the town.

According to records, Zhangjia old drugstore was a folk family drugstore established by Zhang's ancestors in Jintan Town, Daming House in the late Ming Dynasty. It is a firm and drugstore integrating medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and medical equipment. It not only has trained doctors in the classroom, but also the pills, powder and ointment it makes are genuine and enjoy a high reputation among the people. It is one of the oldest pharmacies in Daming Prefecture, with a long history and rare in China. According to the old man's memory, the Zhangjia drugstore of that year: "At the beginning of its opening, there were four or five houses, clean and tidy, and they made their own medicine. Soon Ruirentang became increasingly popular because of its kindness, superb medical skills and convenient dispensing. Later, he bought his own homestead in West Little Cross Street for business consultation, and successively built more than 40 houses, including 10 on the upper and lower floors facing the street. The hall number of Ruiren Hall is hung on the lintel, and the pillars on both sides are written in gold on a black background. The first half is "May everyone in the world get sick", and the second half is "Even if the medicine is put on the shelves, it will also produce dust". nave holds high the plaque "Benevolent people help the world". There are more than ten rooms in the hospital, including reception room, pharmacy repair room, men's house in the east and women's house in the west. The boundaries are different. Women are divided into two rooms inside and outside, and there are several warehouses in the backyard. Ruirentang asked the doctor:' The diagnosis must be fine, the medicine must be true, and the decoction must be heavy; Repair pharmacy' follows the old saying: although processing is complicated, it does not spare labor; Although it tastes expensive, we still spare no effort to make some Chinese patent medicines such as pills, powder, ointment, pills and wine. , convenient for the masses. People who come from far away to ask for sick leave are free at home, and those who seek asylum abroad are also free. Often died and buried, treated during the epidemic, and subsidized to return to China after recovery! People often say:' The poor in Zhangjia Pharmacy take medicine and the rich take money! "

From generation to generation, Zhangjia Pharmacy strictly abides by the prescription selection, drug use, ratio and process specifications established at the beginning of its establishment, and deliberately seeks pills, powders, ointments and various formulas, and gradually cultivates the good reputation of Ruirentang.

At that time, the "tonic" of Zhangjia old drugstore was a pharmaceutical workshop, and it was very busy every day. The workers are nervously grinding powder by the iron mill, either with their hands or feet; Five broadswords are constantly cutting Chinese herbal medicine tablets, and the sound of "click, click" is endless; The ointment boiled in two big pots exudes the fragrance of Chinese herbal medicine; Black pills stand in dustpans stacked with pills of different sizes, shining; There are huge baskets filled with all kinds of medicinal materials neatly arranged around the workshop; The backyard is filled with jars of different sizes for soaking medicinal materials. The whole drugstore is filled with the fragrance of medicinal materials, making half the street fragrant. At that time, it was called by the people that the fragrance of medicine floated thousands of miles and the pot benefited thousands of people.

Ruirentang not only requires pharmacists to check whether there are duplication, shortage, taboo and other problems in the prescription when customers take medicine, but also carefully mix and weigh the single dose of medicine, and give a small filter made of bamboo and yarn to make clear the precautions such as drug introduction before letting customers leave; In terms of medication, Ruirentang not only uses authentic drugs, but also does not neglect the rectification of medicinal materials in order to give full play to its efficacy. For example, insects shed their shells by pinching their heads and claws, Ophiopogon japonicus pulls their hearts, and their fur falls off their old shells and loquat bristles are meticulous. Then there is boiling, steaming, boiling and frying, which is not labor-saving. Ruirentang has won the reputation of our customers with integrity. In addition to the locals, patients from Tianjinwei and Weihui in Henan come here for medical treatment and prescription. Ruirentang enjoys a high reputation in people's hearts. It can be said that all doctors in China are not necessarily masters, and folk doctors will also produce famous doctors! Ruirentang has a wide variety of medicinal materials, which are genuine. From ginseng, velvet antler, musk and rhinoceros horn to codonopsis pilosula, peucedanum root, astragalus root and Ophiopogon japonicus, there are all kinds of medicinal materials. Except for some rare medicinal materials that have to be purchased in other places, most of them are collected by themselves. For hundreds of years, Zhang's descendants have always adhered to the purpose of "respecting ancient processing and selecting excellent medicines" and continued the unique management model formed over hundreds of years. Because of its superior geographical location, complete business varieties, exquisite medical skills and noble medical ethics, it is an old shop with a long history, so it enjoys a high reputation in Hebei, Shandong and Henan, and its business is very prosperous, becoming an old shop in Daming House, Weihe River and Beijing and Tianjin at that time. During the Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Rebellion failed. In order to avoid the shortage of soldiers, the ancestors led the family to sell their property, remain anonymous, leave the clan and live in seclusion. Although they have moved for several years and experienced the difficult and painful process of moving for nearly a hundred years, they still try their best to apply pesticides to benefit the people. When Zhang Zushang moved out of his original place of residence, all the products sold by the sellers were buried, and his family was poor. They use various methods to make a living, but they never forget that they are a medical family and often give medicines to others. After decades of hard work, I finally revived my family business in Zhang Zhongwen. Obtain legal medical qualifications and often treat people voluntarily. Later, his son Jianyong Zhang officially opened a clinic to practice medicine, taking "Kangrui Clinic" as the store number. I hope that when the family business is in the hands of my son, a huge gold plaque of "Ruirentang" can be hung on the door. I hope to employ dozens of experienced Chinese medicine practitioners and pharmacists by then. Rows of large medicine boxes can be neatly arranged in the store, and hundreds of medicine drawers are filled with the fragrance of Chinese herbal medicines, which is refreshing; The wide purple counter is placed in the center of the shop; Grinding the medicine into smooth jade; The shiny brass tamper clinks all day. Zhang's descendants are all hidden elders with legendary experiences, all of whom are kind-hearted and handsome. According to family rules, they were allowed to specialize in Huangdi Neijing and be familiar with Compendium of Materia Medica since childhood. He is proficient in looking, smelling, asking and cutting everything, pushing, hugging, moxibustion and stabbing doors, demanding to master the unique stunts and secret recipes handed down from generation to generation. It is necessary to practice medicine and pharmacy, make house calls and sit in court, and treat people at any time. Many intractable diseases should basically be cured at hand. Mr. Zhang Zhongwen has always been a low-key, diligent, enterprising person who is not afraid of hardship. He not only inherited the good medical ethics and superb medical skills of his ancestors, but also was familiar with history and loved literature and calligraphy. He is versatile and has many interests. At the age of 58, his children and grandchildren will inherit his legacy and make unremitting efforts to fulfill his unfinished wish!

The time-honored Ruirentang is just a microcosm of many shops in Jintan Town. In addition to Ruirentang, there are many old shops in Jintan Town, an ancient town. For example, pearls dot the streets of the old street and shine on the surrounding four miles and eight townships. Basically, outsiders look at the land of geomantic omen in Zhongjintan Town and come to Jin Tan Town to do business in their early years. Such as Fengyuan, Shunxingge, Yongfa grocery store, linen shop of Qingyang Huizhou merchants, Pihuahang of Jiangxi gang, tofu shop of Huizhou merchants, etc. At that time, they were all famous. They are well-known old shops in the old Jintan town, which witnessed the glory of Jintan town as an important artery of land and water transportation and an important food trade port. These foreigners not only brought advanced business philosophy and management experience to Jintan Town, but also built Shanshan Guild Hall, Henan Guild Hall, Jinan Guild Hall and Huizhou Guild Hall in Jintan Town, attracting tourists from all directions to work hard in Jintan Town, making great contributions to supporting the pattern of old streets, prospering Jintan Town's economy and improving the popularity of ancient towns. Unfortunately, after years of ups and downs, none of these old shops can survive and gradually get rid of people's memories. Many time-honored brands are looking forward to "rebirth". "The descendants of Ruirentang are going to decorate the internal and external environment of the pharmacy as a whole, reflecting the cultural elements of Chinese medicine, with doctors sitting in the clinic and carrying out Chinese medicine diagnosis services." This is what the descendants of the Zhang family said when talking about the family history and relics of their ancestors, and it is also a description of the old-fashioned pharmacy after the "rebirth". If the descendants of Laozi Store in Jintan Town do this, after the completion, "every store is a tourist spot, and every store is a traditional small museum", and the architecture of the old shop will also become a striking landscape. At present, the relevant departments of our county are organizing plans, implementing tasks, and striving to restore the old store in Jintan Town as soon as possible. The relevant person in charge of the county tourism bureau told the reporter that the restoration of time-honored shops is an important work content of building green tourism in our county at present and in the future. It is only the first step to let the old shops meet the world as soon as possible, and there is still a long way to go to reproduce the glory of the past. The old shop in Jintan Town will become a highlight of famous tourist routes, which will add another whip to the glorious recovery of Jintan Town in the past!