As a popular food in the world, when did hot pot become popular in ancient times?

As a kind of food, hot pot has become the first food in China, and it became popular in the Yuan Dynasty with a history of hundreds of years. But how much do you know about hot pot when you are enjoying delicious food?

As a traditional way of eating originated from the people, hot pot seems to be one of the most common ways for people in China to get together with friends, who sit around the stove, making wine and chatting. Although hot pot has experienced thousands of years of evolution, the materials and ingredients have undergone earth-shaking changes, but the most essential things have not changed, that is, cooking pot, conducting heat with water and cooking food.

The originator of hot pot is boatman, which originated in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It has a history of over 65,438+000 years. Today's Chongqing hot pot evolved from the earliest street snack "Water Eight Pieces". "Eight pieces of water" is the viscera discarded by cattle and sheep dealers. The boatman picked them up, washed them, and put them in a copper pot made of pebbles to cook. Because Chongqing was in a humid state all the year round, the tracker put some dehumidified ingredients such as pepper and pepper in the pot to remove water, which made the taste very rich, so it became the earliest prototype of Chongqing hot pot.

So far, we don't know who invented hot pot. Some people say it is Genghis Khan's universal hot pot. At that time, Genghis Khan saw that the soldiers were wasting their time eating traditional barbecue mutton, so he cut the mutton into small pieces and threw it into a boiling pot. Since then, there has been a hot pot in this world. The second statement mentioned above was invented by the tracker who pulled the boat. But no matter who invented it, hot pot has entered people's lives and become the most popular food.