Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant was founded in the third year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1864), and its founder Yang Zaijing made a living by selling raw chickens and ducks. 1864, Yang bought a "Dejuquan" dried and fresh fruit shop on Qianmen Street, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and started to operate roast duck and roast donkey meat. Before opening, a Feng Shui gentleman walked around the new store twice and stood and said, "This is a treasure trove of Feng Shui, and its future is limitless. It's just that this store was unlucky before. If you want to deal with it, you can only reverse the old name of' Dejuquan' to' Quanjude', and the new name will be smooth. "
Hearing this, Yang was to his liking. First, there is a word "all" in his name. Second, "Jude" means Jude, so he can flaunt the business of the shop and talk about virtue. So Qian Zilong, a calligrapher at that time, was asked to write a plaque, and the well-known old brand "Quanjude" was born.