Folk tile simmering soup from ancient China, a long history, about its origin there are different sayings.
One of the legend of the Northern Song Dynasty during the Jiayou a Hongzhou (now Nanchang) 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 again 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! Thereafter, the crowd went out to play are made in the same way. Soon learned by a shopkeeper, cited to the restaurant, tile simmering soup since then famous folk, Gan cuisine has become a masterpiece. There has been a gourmet poem said: "folk simmering soup thousands of years, the four seas guests often stay. A thousand years of strange freshness in a can, tasted this soup gold."
Another theory for the late Ming Chongzhen three years, the Hanlin university scholar Tang Bin, served as the irrigation of the Chief Secretary, three years as an official, two-sleeved clean, three meals to tile soup for meals. Perennial in front of the House set up a large vat, cast to pumpkin, tofu, etc., simmering on a small fire, charity for the hungry. The people feel his high integrity and righteousness, known as the "three soup". This "three soup" contains its politics as an official as a clear soup, its people such as Huanglian soup bitter, its entry into the world is like ginseng soup complementary. Tang Bin left office, the people of its benevolence, have lifted the tile simmering soup, and then into the folk landscape of Jiangxi. Any day changes, Jiangxi famous chefs take tile jar fire simmering soup form, all the five flavors of the three materials, pay attention to the nature of food, pharmacology, nine boiled nine changes, Wenwu double fire alternately, when fast and slow. Extinguish the fishy to shame in addition to stink, in order to save sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, salty. To achieve sweet and not sweet, bitter and not astringent; salty and not strong, spicy and not strong; light and not thin, fat and not greasy, about food, pharmacology. Achievement of today's side of the popular folk simmering soup.
The two claims about the origin of folk simmered soup in a pot due to the long era can not be investigated, but regardless of the origin of folk simmered soup in a pot in the end is which one, the unique taste and special production methods have made it become a typical representative of the traditional Chinese folk snacks.