The inventor of hot pot is not clearly recorded. One was in China's Three Kingdoms period or Wei Wendi's era. The "bronze tripod" at that time 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. Chengdu hot pot is recorded in Zuo Si's Sandu Fu and Shudu Fu. It can be seen that its history is more than 1700 years.

After years of development, the industrial chain of China hot pot industry has been formed. Agriculture and animal husbandry in Sichuan, Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Hebei, Henan and other places have established production, processing and sales bases for hot pot raw materials, spices and fuels such as pepper, pepper, mutton, sesame oil, sesame paste, vermicelli and solid alcohol.

Expand the development information of hot pot industry

An important supporting activity of Chengdu Panda Asian Food Festival-Hot Pot Industry Conference Summit Forum 20 19 was held in Chengdu on May 17. According to the development status of the hot pot industry, this forum also released the Investigation Report on the Consumption Behavior of Hot Pot Diners, the White Paper on the Development of China Hot Pot Industry and the Research Report on the Development of China Hot Pot Industry in May 20 18.

Among them, the data from "20 18 China Hot Pot Industry Development Research Report" shows that the total catering revenue in China in 20 18 exceeded 4 trillion yuan, among which hot pot catering became the first category in the catering segmentation field with its unique business model of market demand growth, expansibility and high standardization.

The report shows that the consumer groups of hot pot are younger. In terms of taste choice, spicy incense pot is the bottom of the pot that diners choose the most. The reporter noticed that friends' dinner, daily meals, family gatherings and couples' dating are still the top four consumers in hot pot restaurants.

It is worth noting that this forum also launched the White Paper on the Development of Hot Pot Industry in China, which conducted multi-dimensional research from four aspects: catering big data, hot pot industry associations, hot pot catering bosses and hot pot consumers, and finally formed an objective interpretation and opportunity judgment of the hot pot market, and launched the Research Report on the Development of Hot Pot Industry in China.

It is mentioned in the report that the hot pot industry is characterized by strong integration of regional factions. The representative categories are Sichuan-Chongqing hot pot, Beipai hot pot, Cantonese-style hot pot and Yunnan-Guizhou hot pot, of which Sichuan-Chongqing hot pot accounts for 60%, forming the main form of "brand+special taste".

"At the same time, the operation of the hot pot industry tends to be characteristic, forming characteristics from products, dishes, pot bottom, service and style." The publisher said.

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