During the Three Kingdoms period, the so-called "Five Boilers" appeared. A copper pot is divided into five compartments, and each compartment is filled with different flavors of soup to cook different foods, which is similar to Yuanyang hot pot all over the street.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a kind of copper chafing dish appeared, which was "big mouth and wide belly, thin and light, easy to cook", and was used by Liao people living in Sichuan and Hunan at that time.

Evolved to the Tang Dynasty, there appeared a "warm pot" made of copper. 1984 In Aohan Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, a mural of Qidan people sitting around a hot pot in the vault was unearthed. According to experts' research, this painting tells the story of Qidan people eating instant-boiled mutton in the early Liao Dynasty.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin Hong recorded "Breaking the Palace" in Shanjia Qing Palace. The way to eat rabbit meat is to slice it, marinate it with cooking wine, soy sauce and pepper, then light a stove and set up a small pot. When the soup is boiled, the sliced meat is cooked. Dip in the seasoning. The book also says that this way of eating is "suitable for both pigs and sheep", and the description of eating hot pot is very vivid.

Hot pot flourished in Yuan Dynasty, in which "raw mutton" was the predecessor of instant-boiled mutton. In the official food book Song Hygiene Department of Ming Dynasty, there are also hot pot dishes such as "raw mutton" and "cooked beef", and the technology has become more refined.

During the Qianlong period of Qing dynasty, hot pot was not only loved by the people, but also by the Qianlong emperor, and became a famous court dish. There was a dish called "Wild Hot Pot" in the imperial cuisine of the Qing Dynasty. In the forty-eighth year of Qianlong (1783), on the tenth day of the first month, 530 tables of hot pot seats were set up in Gan Qing Palace to entertain the imperial clan.

Unprecedented; When Emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne (1796), a "Thousand Banquets" was held, and hot pots made of silver, tin and copper were used at one time 1550.