"Quanjude" when the plaque, carved in the old wall above the lintel. Although more than a century of wind and rain, "Quanjude" three big brick characters are still vaguely recognizable. It is now displayed in the store.
Yang Quanren (1822-1890), whose real name was Shoushan, and word Quanren, was the founder of Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant, and a native of Yang Jiazhai, Jixian County, Hebei Province. When he first came to Beijing, he did raw chicken and duck trading in Qianmen Meat Market Street, and his business became more and more prosperous, and he had some savings. 1864, there was a grocery store operated by a Shanxi man in the Meat Market Hutong which could not be operated any longer, and Yang Quanren was introduced to the grocery store, and he opened his own store, which was called "De De", and the name of this grocery store was "De". The name of this grocery store is called Dejuquan, which means "moral gathering, moral wealth". Yang Quanren reversed this name, and changed it to Quanjude. The word "full" implies his name, and the word "Jude" means "to gather all the virtues, and the wealth is prosperous".
It is said that Yang Quanren open full Jude when, please a Feng Shui gentleman, Mr. said store next to the two small alley is two sedan chair pole, the middle of a building it, it is equivalent to lift a sedan chair, the cause will be able to achieve. Legend to legend, but Quanjude in his painstaking management, really slowly by an ordinary oven store developed into a hanging oven roast duck as a specialty, as well as a variety of fried dishes, a veritable restaurant.