Soup is flavor-based, with a fresh, sweet and refreshing taste. It is considered that the essence of various ingredients has been dissolved in the water in which the soup is simmered, and the soup is the main focus when consumed. Soup is one of the more ancient cooking method, refers to the food cut into cubes with boiling soup after cooking, in addition to adding wet flour, so that the soup slipped into a paste cooking method. The ingredients used to make the soup are usually without bones, so as to better achieve the integration of soup and vegetables. Examples include seaweed and egg drop soup and seafood and tofu soup. Soup from cuisine into the cultural territory, generated a huge celebrity effect. Delicious soup had many celebrities for the stay, and it is because of the celebrities eat soup, but also make some of the traditional soup is famous all over the world, and the ancient history.

Long lived in the north, only to understand that the northerners like to add starch to cooking, dishes inside the starch thickening, what Hu Zhi Tang, goosebumps soup, noodle soup, the name with a soup word, in fact, is a soup. Ancient people called soup "soup", called boiling water "soup". For example, China's famous Beijing duck production, will still be roasted before the duck belly filled with boiled water in this process called soup, which is left since ancient times. The only difference lies in the fact that the soup is usually clear and light in flavor, while the soup is thick and flavorful. This is also because the process of making soup does not require the use of ingredients such as cornstarch to thicken the sauce. But when you make a soup, you often need to use these ingredients to increase the consistency of the soup.

Soup is mainly for drinking water, so it is relatively light, such as chicken soup in a casserole, pigeon soup in a stew pot, are based on more water is called soup. Soup usually refers to the use of steaming, boiling, stewing, scalding and other cooking methods, cooking raw materials, into the process of thickening a dish without thickening a dish. Soups such as soup, tripe soup, cucumber and seaweed soup, tofu soup, pork chop soup, are more refreshing. In ancient times, the word "soup" generally referred to meat with juice, not soup. The meaning of "soup" is from the Middle Ages onward. The Zhou Dynasty has many kinds of soup, almost all the meat can be eaten can be made soup, cattle soup, sheep soup, rabbit soup, pheasant soup, turtle soup, fish soup.