"The Great Wall is not a good man, not to eat roast duck is a pity."　　This is the iconic tagline for tourism in the capital. However, despite the fact that there are countless duck restaurants in the capital, the duck here seems to refer to Quanjude's duck alone. It is Quanjude's roast duck that has made it one of the "signature dishes" of Beijing's restaurant industry.　　Nowadays, Quanjude has many branches. Not only the city south, north, east and west of the city almost covered the four nine cities, but also opened to many cities in the country, and even opened to foreign countries. However, Quanjude in many branches around the country are not all like the capital of several Quanjude fire, Shenzhen, Nanjing and some other places Quanjude also closed down. Here is the reason is very simple, Quanjude roast duck is one of the highlights of the capital, in the field to eat Beijing roast duck is not a flavor. Therefore, to which store to eat roast duck is actually still a matter of taste. That said, in the capital to eat roast duck that also have to pick the store outside the front door.　　Qianmen Quanjude is the root of Quanjude. It was here that Yang Quanren, the founder of Quanjude, started his business. Yang Quanren was a native of Yangjiazhai, Jixian County, Hebei Province, and when he first came to Beijing, he traded raw chickens and ducks on Meat Market Street outside the front gate. He understood the way of selling ducks very well, and his business became more and more prosperous. He saved up a lot of money by saving money on weekdays. Yang Quanren every day to the meat market stalls selling chickens and ducks, have to go through a named "Dejuquan" dried fruit store. Although the signboard of this store was eye-catching, but the business was not as good as one day. By the third year of Tongzhi (1864), it was on the verge of closure. Yang Quanren seized this opportunity and took out his savings for many years and bought the store of "Dejuquan".　　With his own store, what name should be given? Yang Quanren invited a Feng Shui master. Mr. Feng Shui store around the circle, said: "This is a piece of feng shui land. This store on both sides of the two small alley, like two sedan chair pole, the future cover up a building, will be like a eight-carried sedan chair, the future is unlimited!" Mr. Feng Shui added: "However, this store was very unlucky in the past, and it is hard to get rid of the bad luck. Unless the old Chinese character '德聚全' is reversed and changed to '全聚德', the bad luck can be washed away."　　Yang Quanren was very satisfied with the name "全聚德": for one thing, he had the word "全" in his name, and for another, "聚德" means to gather virtues, so that he could boast that he was doing business with virtues. Virtue. So, he named the store "Quanjude". Then, he invited Qian Zilong, a scholar, to write three big characters "Quanjude" and made a golden plaque to hang on the lintel.　　However, sharp-eyed diners may be able to see that the character "德" on the Quanjude plaque is missing a cross. According to the old-timers, when Mr. Yang invited Mr. Qian Zilong to write the inscription, the two of them had a drink first. As Qian Zicai drank two more cups, he forgot to write the character "德" without paying attention to it. However, there is a more nose to say: back then, Yang Quanren business, a **** hired 13 fellows, plus their own a **** 14 people. In order to let everyone work at ease, work together, so let the money Xiu Cai less write a cross, said everyone can not cross a knife on the heart. In fact, the real reason is that the character "德" used to be written in two ways, either with or without a cross. Now standing in the Confucius Temple in Beijing, the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi's imperial script "University Tablet" in the "moral" character is not a cross; the Qing Dynasty painter Zheng Banqiao himself wrote the "moral" character, some with a cross, some do not bring a cross. Therefore, both ways of writing the character "德" in the past are correct.　　After the establishment of the name "Quanjude", Yang Quanren knew that in order to have a prosperous business, he had to rely on a good cook, a good head of the hall and a good shopkeeper. He often to all kinds of roast duck store to go around, looking for roast duck masters. Later, he inquired about the Jinhua Museum specializing in the imperial food for the court to do the hanging oven roast duck there is a Sun master roast duck technology is very superb, and the old Sun head to make friends by all means, often drink together and play chess, the relationship between each other closer and closer. Mr. Sun was finally persuaded by Yang Quanren, and was recruited to Quanjude under a heavy gift.　　Quanjude hired Mr. Sun, equal to the Qing Palace hanging oven roast duck mastered all the technology. Mr. Sun changed the original oven into a tall furnace, deep and wide hearth, a furnace can roast a dozen ducks hanging stove, but also can be roasted on one side, one side to the inside of the renewed duck. After he roasted the duck beautiful appearance, plump and full, bright color, color jujube red, crispy skin and tender meat, fresh and crispy, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, for the Quanjude roast duck has won the "capital of the beautiful food, nothing better than duck" reputation.　　In those days, there were many old restaurants with the same name as Quanjude, such as Cheap Place, Casserole House, Liuquan House and so on. However, why only Quanjude became the representative of the capital's catering? Some of the old old old said: "Quanjude rushed to a good place, close to Tiananmen Square, our country invited foreign guests to dine there. You can say it's not hot." Maybe it was just what the feng shui master said back then. After the founding of New China, Quanjude roast duck and Maotai wine, and became the national leaders invited foreign dignitaries and celebrities, showing the Chinese food culture of the "signature Lei". During his lifetime, Premier Zhou Enlai paid great attention to the development of Quanjude, not only suggesting that slices of roast duck should be made into long strips, and lotus leaf pancakes should be made into oval shapes so as to make it easier for diners to roll and eat, but also personally annotating the three characters of Quanjude with the words: "Full but not lacking, gathering but not dispersing, and benevolence and virtue are supreme". The words "Quanjude" were also written in his own words. This note has become the core of Quanjude's corporate culture.　　The fact that a roast duck is so highly regarded by national leaders is indeed remarkable. Peking duck is roasted with Peking duck. The so-called "fill duck" that is by artificial three times a day forced to fill the tale, the feed stuffed with duck crop '. The ducks cultivated by artificial filling and fertilization have white fur, plump body, tender meat and delicious meat taste. Quanjude's roast duck process is difficult, duck in the roast before, first have to go through the pumping, hollowing, washing, hooking, hot skin, sugar, drying skin eight processes. The pumping, in order to blow the duck body expansion, so that the duck skin is taut and does not produce wrinkles; playing sugar, is to give the duck body brushed with caramel water, so that the duck skin baked bright and colorful. Not only that, the hanging oven roast duck in the furnace before filling with boiling water, and a section of sorghum stalks stuffed into the duck tail to prevent the boiling water outflow. When roasting, the heat enters and keeps the water boiling inside the duck's chamber. Because it is outside the roast inside the boil, roasted duck outside the crispy inside tender, flavorful meat. Hanging oven roasting with open fire, with fruit-scented wood as fuel, usually date wood is the main, supplemented by peach, pear. The sweet aroma of the fruit wood is seeped into the duck body, making the roasted duck extraordinarily flavorful. In addition, when baked, but also constantly rotate the hanging straw, so that the duck breast is not directly to the fire. Roasted duck, fat outflow and then seeped into the duck body, the duck skin was date-red, the whole body oily and shiny, pleasing to the eye, mouth-watering.　　Nowadays, to eat roast duck in Quanjude, and finally give a duck ID card, tell the guests to eat is the first how many ducks in Quanjude. According to statistics, Quanjude roasted ducks have been more than 100 million. These roast ducks head to tail in a queue, you can circle the globe several times.