Beijing Liubiju Food Co., Ltd., Tianyuan Sauce Garden, one of the top ten brands of pickles, was founded in 1869, a time-honored enterprise, a typical Beijing pickle, famous for the production of sweet noodle sauce and a variety of sweet pickles
Tianyuan Sauce Garden, a century-old brand, was founded in the eighth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1869) and has the highest professional status in China's seasoning industry. It has more than 500 franchised stores and more than 20 self-operated stores, all over Beijing.
Located in the southeast corner of the Xidan crossroads, the "Tianyuan Sauce Garden" was opened in the eighth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1869), has a history of more than 130 years, and was opened by Liu Zhanxuan, one of the "four major pawnshops" in the capital at that time, with 200 taels of silver to buy an oil and salt shop that was about to close down. At that time, the purpose of the shopkeeper was to get in touch with the upper class, so he asked the pickle master to introduce the technology of the Qing Imperial Dining Room, and the front store and the back factory, producing and selling their own products, especially famous for producing sweet noodle sauce and various sweet pickles.
Tianyuan Sauce Garden, which has a history of more than 130 years, was opened by Liu Zhanxuan, one of the "four major pawnshops" in Beijing at that time, who bought an oil and salt shop that was about to close down with 200 taels of silver. At that time, the purpose of the shopkeeper was to get in touch with the upper class, so he asked the pickle master to introduce the technology of the Qing Imperial Dining Room, and the front store and the back factory, producing and selling their own products, especially famous for producing sweet noodle sauce and various sweet pickles.
Tianyuan pickles are typical pickles in Beijing, the practice of pickles comes from the famous teachers of the Qing court, fine workmanship, exquisite materials, its characteristics are "sweet, fresh, crisp, tender" finished products are moderately sweet and salty, delicious, very popular with southerners and foreign guests, so there is also the name of "southern cuisine", for more than 100 years, Tianyuan has maintained its own fine tradition of Beijing flavor, and gradually absorbed the specialties of southern pickles, and gradually formed its own unique production methods and business varieties, with a wide variety of colors and genuine goods.
Once, the Empress Dowager Cixi tasted the osmanthus sugar mustard of "Tianyuan" when she praised it, and the news reached the owner of the sauce garden shop, he immediately put the porcelain altar containing the sugar mustard in the hall, decorated it with a red lacquered wooden frame, and marked the words "cooked mustard with sugar", and the reputation of Tianyuan Sauce Garden was greatly boosted for a while, and many wealthy officials became guests. The boss took the opportunity to ask for the Hanlin Lu Runzhen inscription of the "Tianyuan Beijing Sauce Garden" gold plaque, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Hanlin Wang Yu inscribed for the Tianyuan Sauce Garden, "The sky is high and the earth is thick for thousands of years, the origin is long, the sauce is accompanied by salt and plum and the Ding Nai, and the garden is in Chang'an and wins Penglai." This Tibetan poem hangs high in the four pillars of the store, and Tianyuan Sauce Garden, a slightly salty and sweet sauce garden with a unique flavor of Beijing, is more famous inside and outside the capital.
The successive generations of operators of Tianyuan Sauce Garden have attached great importance to the quality of pickles, and insisted on "strict and exquisite workmanship" in the selection and processing of materials. Vegetables to make pickles, specially planted by farmers in the suburbs of Beijing, specifications and quality have strict standards, such as the autumn cucumber of "Lu Ji" outside Anding Gate, must be top with thorns, straight waist and thin waist, 4-6 pieces per 500 grams, the garlic Wang Gui of Dongran Village in the western suburbs, three days before the summer solstice every year, the garlic requires the garlic to be sent to Tianyuan with mud.
After the liberation, the state actively supported the time-honored brand, in addition to giving priority to the supply of raw materials, but also invested in Nanyuan land acquisition of 40 acres to build a new factory of "Tianyuan", so that the old store was rejuvenated, the traditional flavor has been preserved and carried forward, Premier Zhou has sent people to "Tianyuan" to buy sweet sauce ginger sprouts, chili paste, etc., the "Tianyuan" pickles have been given high praise. The late Peking Opera artist Mei Lanfang and Ma Lianliang are the old customers of "Tianyuan". Yuan Shihai once sent a book praising Tianyuan pickles as "really a good accompaniment". Overseas Chinese and foreign guests from Japan and Southeast Asia have been entrusted by relatives and friends to buy pickles in the name of countless people. Tianyuan Sauce Garden is now affiliated to Beijing Liubiju Food Co., Ltd. (formerly Beijing Pickle Company).
