As early as the Liao Dynasty, the ancestors of Manchu jurchen had the dietary custom of burning clay pots and cooking venison and roe deer slices with dragonfly soup when hunting in the wild. The chicken soup is steaming, and the deer and roe deer are sliced and cooked. Later, due to the stability of fishing and hunting life, pork, mutton, chicken, fish, pheasant, roe deer, venison and dragon meat were developed in copper pots. Some also use all kinds of mushrooms to make soup, such as hazel mushroom, late Yuan Dynasty, straw mushroom, Hericium erinaceus and so on.

Legend has it that at the end of the Liao Dynasty, Akuta (1068— 1 123) rose up against the Liao Dynasty and established the Jin Dynasty in 1 15. The Jin Dynasty destroyed Liao 1 125, and the Northern Song Dynasty destroyed Liao 1 127. On the way to March and fight, the soldiers put pigs, sheep and beef in a pot to save time. Later, Jin Jun entered the customs and brought this eating habit to the Central Plains.

Because hot pot tastes delicious, chefs in imperial kitchens have cooked it into top-grade imperial food. In the late Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Qianlong held a thousand wedding banquets, which were mainly based on hot pot. So eating hot pot is popular all over the country.