Pot simmering soup: According to legend, during Jiayou period of Northern Song Dynasty, a gifted scholar in Hongzhou invited friends to travel. When he arrived at a beautiful place, he ordered his servant to cook fish, chicken and meat on the spot and play until sunset. However, everyone still wants to meet again tomorrow. When he left, the servant put the remaining chicken, fish and seasoning into a crock, filled it with clear spring, sealed it with a lid, and stuffed it into an unlit ash furnace, sealed it with earth, leaving only one hole for ventilation. The next day, everyone arrived as scheduled, and the servant moved the buried crock out before opening the crock lid. Delicious and delicious! From then on, everyone went out to play like this, and was later learned by a shopkeeper and introduced to the restaurant. From then on, crock simmer soup became famous among the people and became a must for Gancai. A gourmet once wrote a poem praising: "Folk stews soup for thousands of years, and guests from all over the world often stay. A thousand years of wonders can be collected, and this soup will not be changed. " "Pot simmering soup" also recorded that "the pot is fragrant and boiling, elegant in all directions, and the pot is stewed to the end, which is amazing in the world."

Tang Wenhua: Cooking belongs to the cultural category and is a valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. As a part of this cultural heritage, soup is closely related to the ancient culture of the Chinese nation. There are two versions of the source of the word "soup". One is to make a glug sound when drinking soup, and make a "filar silk" sound when drinking soup. The sound of "filar silk" is very similar to the pronunciation of the word "soup" Another way of saying this is that the word "soup" may have originated from the German word "sop", that is, a kind of bread filled with broth or thick soup. In English, the word "midnight snack" comes from "midnight snack", which means please sit down and drink a bowl of soup. In America, shouting "soupiscoming" means that the family can sit down and eat. Soup has a long history. Since ancient times, people have known to eat vegetable soup. According to the cultural relics excavated by archaeologists, from 8000 to 7000 BC, people in the eastern region have learned to make soup. Because pottery was not produced at that time, people cooked food, dug a hole in the ground, covered it with hides, sank it into the hole, put water and food to be cooked, lit firewood near the hole, handed in two stones to burn, and put it into the hole until the water boiled, the food boiled and the soup was cooked. At the same time, foreign historians found in archaeological research that human beings used vegetables and meat to make thick soup, put it in leather water bags, and heated it with hot stones for drinking. This strange way of drinking water has existed among American Indians for a long time. According to records, in the ancient Greek Olympic Games, every contestant had to take a goat or calf to the temple of Zeus, first put it on the altar of Zeus, then slaughtered it according to the traditional ceremony and cooked it in a cauldron. Cooked meat was shared with non-contestants, indicating that people already knew that soup was the most nutritious food in cooked food.

Historians have confirmed that the oldest cookbook in the world was discovered in China before 2700 AD. This cookbook records more than a dozen soups. One of them is pigeon eggs Soup, which is still in use today. It is called "Hanging the Golden Moon in the Silver Sea" in the cookbook. The recipes of the royal family in China can be regarded as a combination of Chinese food and China soup. Empress Dowager Cixi is the most famous gourmet in the history of China. Eight chefs cooked soup for her. Her favorite soup is "duck tongue chicken", and the ingredients are chicken, duck tongue, shredded ham, abalone and scallops. Princess De Ling once wrote in her "Yingtai Bloody Case" that "this Lafayette seems to have formed an indissoluble bond with duck tongue soup all his life".