The origin of hot pot?

There are two ways of saying the origin of hot pot: one says that there was hot pot in the Warring States period, and the historians used clay pots as pots. The other says that hot pot began in the Han Dynasty, and "Dou" means hot pot. Western Han Dynasty Haihunhou Tomb cultural relics unearthed hot pot in kind. It can be seen that the hot pot in China has a history of more than 2000 years.

Song Lin Hong in his Shanjia Qingsui mentioned eating hot pot, that is, it is called "dialing Xia for". He talked about how, while traveling to Wuyi Mountain and visiting Shidao, he was given a rabbit in the snow, with no chef to cook it. "Shi Yun, the mountain only with thin batch, wine, sauce, pepper, and the Wozhi. To wind stove on the table, water half a choshi, wait for the soup rang a cup, each divided into chopsticks, so that since the clip into the soup swinging cooked, bite, it is free to each juice for free dipping." In terms of eating style, it was similar to the current "shabu-shabu hotpot".

Until the Ming and Qing dynasties, hot pots really flourished. On the tenth day of the first month of the forty-eighth year of the Qing dynasty, the Qianlong emperor held a 530-table palace hot pot, which was the most popular hot pot in China at the time. Qing Jiaqing Emperor ascended to the throne, had a "thousand old man feast", the use of hot pot reached 1550, the scale is called the peak, amazing.

Notice of eating hot pot

Shabu-shabu should not be too short: Meat contains a lot of bacteria and parasite eggs, and shabu-shabu is too short to kill these harmful substances. In general, thinner slices of meat only need to be scalded for about 1 minute before the color of the meat changes from bright red to grayish white. For thicker slices of meat, try to blanch them for as long as possible to make sure they are cooked through before eating.

Pathogenic microorganisms and parasite eggs often remain in fresh food. If you eat them, there is a high chance that harmful microorganisms will invade your body, so don't eat any food that is not cooked through.