(A) the pot of hot pot
If you follow? Cooking while eating? In ancient times, you can find the corresponding utensils, such as Wen Ding in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the dyeing utensil in Han Dynasty, and the cauldron with five mouths in Wei and Jin Dynasties, all of which can be regarded as the precursors of this food.
1. Shang and Zhou Wen Ding
People in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties have adopted a separate meal system when eating. Everyone will put pots (ding) of different sizes in front of them according to their grades. Is there such a special ding? Wen Ding? .
This tripod is divided into two layers, the upper layer is used to hold food, and the lower tray can burn charcoal fire. Continuous heating is the essence of hot pot, so this kind of tripod is almost the embryonic form of a single buffet hot pot.
2. Korean dynamometer
The dyeing apparatus in the Han Dynasty is amazing, because the container on which food is placed is similar to an ear cup, so it has always been considered as a wine warmer. But before there's something on the device? Qinghe cuisine officer? Inscription, to conclude that it is a cooker.
But magically, this dyeing device is used to heat the dip when eating hot pot. The method of dipping meat in Han nationality includes two steps: first, cook the meat to an edible level, which is equivalent to the present white cook the meat; Then dip it in seasoning, and the dyed cup is filled with seasoned sauce. ?
3. Five Ding in Wei and Jin Dynasties
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the cultural consciousness of scholars brought more abundant enjoyment of life, and hot pot also developed to a nearly mature stage. For example, Cao Pi of Cao Wei is a master of enjoying food. It is recorded in the "Three Kingdoms":
? Wei was founded in Dali and later moved. Emperor Wen was in the East Palace and gave him five pet phrase pots? . It says here. Five kettles? When cooking, the fire is raging in the middle and the soup is boiling around, so you can cook a variety of foods at the same time. Is it like our modern primary combination of Beijing Donglaishun and Chongqing Jiugongge?
(2) Hotpot dishes
Now we eat hot pot, instant-boiled mutton and beef is the most appetizing way to eat, but in fact, it was not until the Song Dynasty that people began to eat meat in hot pot, and it was not beef and mutton, but rabbit meat. There is a saying in Lin Hong's diet book "Shan Jia Qing Gong" in the Song Dynasty that Miao Yan: Surging sunshine in Jiang Xue, the wind turns the setting sun? In other words, the soup pot is boiling like snow, and the rabbit meat is bright red like sunset glow, which is a good way to eat literature and art.
In fact, the Mongols really laid the foundation for our hot pot today. It is said that Kublai Khan had no time to cook mutton during a March, so he sliced the mutton and put it in the pot. Unexpectedly, it is not only easy to cook, but also delicious, because before that, when people ate hot pot, the meat was cut so thick that the heat could not be controlled, so people often felt that the meat was overcooked when eating it, which affected the taste.
Later, people also found that it is edible to rinse the thin meat slices in the hot pot once with chopsticks, that is to say, at this time? Rinse hot pot? It has already appeared.