Information about hot pot

Hot pot, called "antique soup" in ancient times. Named after the "splash" sound when food is put into boiling water, it is one of the original delicacies in China and a kind of food suitable for all ages. Hot pot is not only a way of cooking, but also a symbol of culture.

Hot pot generally refers to a cooking method in which a pot is used as a vessel, a pot is cooked with a heat source, and various foods are cooked with water or soup. It can also refer to the pot used in this cooking method. It is characterized by eating while cooking, or the pot itself has the function of heat preservation. Hot pot is hot now, spicy and salty, oily but not greasy, suitable for mountain and river climate, and has now developed into a mandarin duck pot, spicy and light, with different needs.

Add different soups and foods according to personal preferences, which are suitable for all ages and best in winter. Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, egg products, staple foods and so on. They are cooked in boiling water or at the bottom of special soup pots. Some ways of eating will be dipped in seasoning and eaten together.

About the origin of hot pot:

When it was said that there were hot pots in the Warring States period, historians used clay pots as pots. Another way of saying it is that hot pot began in the Han Dynasty, and "Dou" refers to hot pot. Hot pot was unearthed from the tomb of Hunhou in the Western Han Dynasty. Visible hot pot in China has a history of more than two thousand years. Hot pot made of copper in the Three Kingdoms period was used to rinse pork, cattle, sheep, chicken, fish and other meat, but it was not popular at that time. Later, with the further development of cooking technology, various hot pots appeared one after another.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, eating hot pot was very common among the people. In the bar in Kaifeng, Bianjing, you can eat hot pot in winter. In the Yuan Dynasty, hot pot spread to Mongolia. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, hot pot was not only popular among the people, but also became a famous "palace dish" made of wild game such as pheasant.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, dozens of different hot pots had been formed all over the country, each with its own characteristics. During the Muromachi period in Japan, hot pot was introduced to Japan from China on 1338. Japanese call hot pot "Xi Shou Shao", also known as "Hoe Shao". Today, hot pot has spread to the United States, France, Britain and other countries.

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