Huqingyu Museum

Huqingyu Museum was founded by Hu Xueyan with the south architectural style in 1874, located at 95 Dajing Lane (大井巷) alongside West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The drugstore opened in 1878 at a cost of more than 200 thousand taels and operated on the principle of Taiping Huimin and the Bureau agents (太平惠民和剂局方). It made more than four hundred types of the drug by collecting secret prescriptions, proved recipes and combining clinical practice. Hu Qing Yu Tang has become the only Chinese medicine museum. In 1988, it became a national key cultural relics protection unit.