Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, egg products, vermicelli 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.

Red soup is a spicy soup, which is made of thick soup, pepper, douban, fermented soybean, mash juice, crystal sugar, refined salt, yellow wine and various spices. White soup is made of old hen, fat duck, pork bone, ham elbow, lean pork, onion, ginger, wine and so on. Generally used with red soup, it is rarely used alone. Even if it is used, it is often eaten with some seasonings.

Dip sauce is an indispensable part of hot pot, and the common ones are sesame oil sauce, garlic paste sauce, pepper oil sauce, red oil sauce, spicy sauce, Sichuan seven dip sauce, soy sauce, leek flower sauce and so on.

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There are also different opinions about the origin of hot pot, just like Arabic numerals, which originated in India, but spread to all directions through Arabs. This is why people later mistakenly thought that Arabic numerals were invented by Arabs.

There are two theories about the origin of hot pot: one is in the period of China Three Kingdoms or Wei Wendi, when the "bronze tripod" was the predecessor of hot pot; The other is that hot pot began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the "dou" in unearthed cultural relics refers to hot pot. It can be seen that hot pot has a history of 1900 years in China.

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