Hot pot is very popular with everyone. What is the evolution of hot pot from ancient times to the present?

Hotpot is a traditional cooking method with a long history in China. Generally speaking, hot pot is a cooking method that uses a pot as an appliance, uses a heat source to make the pot boil, and uses water or soup to conduct heat and cook food. It is characterized by eating while cooking. Because the pot itself has heat preservation function, the food is still steaming, and the soup is integrated. Hot pot comes from hot pot. What is hot pot? In fact, as long as there is a fire below and a pot above, it is a hot pot. The evolution of what pots and fuels have been used since ancient times can be described by interesting food. Then make a fire at the bottom to cook. Turn it into a pot of stew and call it soup, which is the earliest form of hot pot. However, there is no salt, no seasoning, no sauce, just a pile of meat.

The huge tripod can't be moved, so it can only be fixed in one place, which is inconvenient to enjoy at any time. Therefore, the Western Zhou Dynasty not only invented copper and iron, but also improved various pottery products and made smaller utensils suitable for ordinary people, which made the hot pot directly popular. Another argument about the origin of hot pot is that hot pot began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the sinus in the unearthed cultural relics refers to hot pot. It can be seen that hot pot has a long history in China. During the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor, and copper hot pot appeared, but it was not popular at that time. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, people gradually cooked with hot pot.

Originally popular in cold northern China, people used it to rinse pork, cattle, sheep, chicken and fish. Later, with the development of China's economy and culture, and the further development of cooking technology, various hot pots also appeared one after another. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the pubs in Kaifeng, Bianjing, had hot pots in winter. During the Qing dynasty, hot pot and hot pot became the winter delicacies of the court. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, dozens of different kinds of hot pots had been formed in China, and there were container ding in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At that time, when offering sacrifices or celebrating, it was necessary to ring the bell to put all the ingredients such as beef and mutton into the tripod, and then make a fire at the bottom to cook and share.

This is the embryonic form of hot pot. Small pottery stoves unearthed in Zhejiang and other places many years ago combined with pottery pots can be easily moved and can be regarded as the main form of hot pot. A popular cooking method in Qin and Han Dynasties was to cook chicken and pork with boiling water. The so-called five-boiling pot appeared, which divided a copper pot into five grids.

Each carriage cooks different foods with different tastes of soup, similar to Yuanyang hot pot which is now spread all over the streets and small ports. Hot pot became popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the government and celebrities held banquets to prepare more hot pots. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a kind of copper ladle with a big belly and a thin belly and light weight appeared. This is the copper hot pot used by Liao people living in Sichuan and Hunan at that time.