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Shangchizhai Pharmacy 上池斋药店Shàngchízhāi Yàodiàn

National heritage site · Taizhou, Jiangsu

Shangchizhai Pharmacy (上池斋药店)
Photo: Jsxhwzq, CC BY-SA 3.0
Time needed
Under 1 hour
Days to budget
Half a day
City
Taizhou
Region
Jiangsu
Type
Heritage
Listed as
National heritage site

About Shangchizhai Pharmacy

Shangchizhai was founded in the Kangxi–Yongzheng period by Fang Shichuan of Yangzhou and named after a line in Sima Qian's biography of the physician Bian Que; its shop buildings date from the Qing and Republican periods. It stands in the Jindongmen historic quarter, Xinghua's old trading street east of the walled town, among other listed houses including the former home of the painter Zheng Banqiao.

How to get to Shangchizhai Pharmacy

In the Jindongmen quarter on the east side of Xinghua's old town, about 500 m east of the Zheng Banqiao and Fan Zhongyan Memorial Hall.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Zheng Banqiao and Fan Zhongyan Memorial Hall 郑板桥·范仲淹纪念馆 (under 10 km), Xinghua Duotian Raised Fields 兴化垛田 (under 10 km), Lizhong Water Forest 李中水上森林 (20 km).

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