Wan Sixuan (万嗣轩), the founder of Wan Cheng Zhi Tang, was a tycoon in old Hangzhou City. He founded the famous pharmacy “Wan Cheng Zhi Tang” in Hangzhou in 1875 in the early years of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. At the time of the establishment of the pharmacy, Wan Sixuan established the ancestral motto of “Being true to medicine and not deceiving customers; practicing rightfully and not deceiving the world", requiring the medicinal materials sold in the pharmacy to be authentic and pure, and vowing not to profit from counterfeits.

With the pious heart of benefiting the common people and the great ambition of “accumulating the medicine from all over the world to cure the diseases of the world”, the managers of successive generations have made Wan Cheng Zhi Tang one of the “top three stores of Hangzhou Pharmaceutical Industry” and along with the “six TCM pharmacies” of Hangzhou formed the Southern Pharmaceutical Market, which is as famous as that of Beijing.