Tile simmering soup: Legend has it that during the Northern Song Dynasty, a Hongzhou scholar about friends on a field trip to a place of beauty, the servant was ordered to cook fish on the spot to cook chicken meat, play to the setting sun, the people are still interested in meeting tomorrow. Before leaving, the servant will be the remaining chicken, fish and meat and condiments into the tile jar, filled with spring, cover pressure sealed tightly, into the unextinguished ash furnace sealed with soil, leaving only a hole for ventilation. The next day, the people as scheduled, the servants will bury the jar out, only to open the tile cover, is already fragrant, fine taste, excellent flavor! Since then, the people are out to play as the method of preparation, after being informed by a shopkeeper, led to the restaurant, tile simmering soup has since become famous folk, Gan cuisine a masterpiece. There was a gourmet poem said: "folk simmering soup for thousands of years, the four seas guests often stay. A thousand years of strange freshness in a can, taste this soup gold." The "Wakan simmering soup record" has also been recorded in the "Wakan incense boiling, four sides of the drift, a can of simmering, the world's strange fragrance".

Soup culture: cooking belongs to the cultural category, it is a valuable cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. As part of this cultural heritage - soup, and the ancient culture of the Chinese nation has a close relationship." Soup" (soup) the origin of the word there are two ways of saying, one is to drink soup to make a gurgling sound, sip soup when the sound of "silk", "silk" sound and "soup" the word is very similar to the pronunciation of the word. Another theory is that the word "soup" may have originated from the German word "sop", a type of bread topped with broth or soup. In English, the word "supper" comes from the word "sup," which means to sit down and have a bowl of soup. In the United States, a shout of "soup is coming" (soupiscoming) means that the family can sit down for a meal. Soup has a long history, from ancient times, people know to eat vegetable soup. According to artifacts unearthed by archaeologists, people in the Eastern region learned how to make soup between 8,000 and 7,000 B.C. At that time, pottery had not yet been produced. Because at that time pottery has not been produced, people cook food into, dig a pit on the ground, laying animal skins, so that the concave down a pit, into the water and food to be boiled, and then in the vicinity of the pit burning firewood, handing over two pieces of stone burned hot into the pit, to the water boiled food boiled into a soup to drink. At the same time, foreign historians found in archaeological research, humans have made a vegetable shelter meat soup, installed in the leather water bag, put into the hot stone heating before drinking. This peculiar way of drinking in the United States state Indians have also existed for a long time. It is recorded that in the ancient Greek Olympic Games, each competitor brought a goat or calf to the temple of Zeus, first placed on the altar of Zeus to make a sacrifice, and then slaughtered according to traditional rituals and placed in a cauldron to cook. The fact that the cooked meat was shared with non-participants suggests that at that time it was already known that soup was the most nutritious of the cooked foods.

Historians say the world's oldest cookbook was discovered in China 2,700 years ago. This cookbook contains more than a dozen soup dishes. One of them, which is still in use today, is "pigeon egg soup," which the cookbook refers to as "the golden moon hanging over the silver sea. The recipes of Chinese emperors and kings were a combination of Chinese cuisine and Chinese soups. Empress Dowager Cixi was the most famous gourmet in Chinese history. She had eight imperial chefs to make soup for her, and her favorite soup was "Chicken and Duck Tongue Soup", which consisted of chicken, duck tongue, shredded ham, abalone, dried scallops, and so on. Princess De Ling in her "Terra Nova Blood" has written that "the old Buddha seems to have a life with the duck tongue soup bond".