According to research, there were hot pots in the Warring States period, and historians used clay pots as pots. By the Song Dynasty, eating hot pot was very common among the people. In Lin Hong's cookbook Shanjia Qinggong in the Southern Song Dynasty, there is an introduction about eating hot pot with friends. In the Yuan Dynasty, hot pot spread to Mongolia. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, hot pot was not only deeply loved by the people, but also became a famous "palace dish" together with game materials such as pheasants.

Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, egg products, staple foods and so on. They are cooked in boiling water or at the bottom of special soup pots. Some ways of eating will be dipped in seasoning and eaten together.

The development of history

Shu Wei recorded that during the Three Kingdoms period, when Cao Pi was the emperor of the Han Dynasty, there was a hot pot made of copper. People use hot pot to rinse pork, cattle, sheep, chicken, fish and other meat, but it was not popular at that time. Later, with the further development of cooking technology, various hot pots appeared one after another.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were hot pots in the pubs in Kaifeng, Bianjing, in winter. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, dozens of different hot pots had been formed all over the country, each with its own characteristics.

During the Muromachi period in Japan, hot pot was introduced to Japan from China on 1338. Japanese call hot pot "Xi Shou Shao", also known as "Hoe Shao". Today, hot pot has spread to the United States, France, Britain and other countries.

Nowadays, in China, the popular characteristics of hot pot catering are accepted and loved by consumers. Especially the cold and dry weather in the north makes the hot pot market have great potential, and the management methods of hot pot types are constantly innovating. Chongqing hot pot, which is famous for its "mala Tang", is a southern hot pot, while northern hot pot and new hot pot are mainly represented by instant-boiled mutton.