From the structural point of view, this five-cell cauldron is similar to the hot pot we use now, except that it has three more feet, forming a trend of three legs, which can be placed on the ground smoothly. Experts infer from the structure of the five-cell cauldron that this is the hot pot used by the ancients, who used it to eat hot pot and rinse meat. This statement makes sense. In ancient times, there was no induction cooker for eating hot pot. The pot with five mouths is only three feet high and can be placed on the ground smoothly. You only need to add firewood to the pot to cook soup and rinse meat. The pot is divided into five compartments, so you can rinse five different flavors of ingredients.

According to relevant media reports, a large Han tomb was unearthed in Dayun, Xuyi, Jiangsu. The owner of the tomb is Liu Fei, King Jiangdu of Han Dynasty and the fifth brother of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. The owner of the tomb is very famous, and there are naturally many funerary objects in the cemetery. Experts have found as many as 10,000 rare treasures, attracting countless eyes. Among these unearthed cultural relics, one bronze ware is particularly eye-catching, that is, this five-cell cauldron. Experts believe that this is a hot pot used by the ancients, with high historical and cultural value, and it is the only hot pot unearthed in China during the Western Han Dynasty. Before that, was it unearthed in China in the Wei Wendi era? Medium-boiled pot? However, the history of five cauldrons is three or four hundred years earlier than that of five cauldrons, which proves that the ancients invented hot pot earlier.

Five-grid Ding Five-grid Ding is a name given by modern people, which was called in the ancient population? Five kettles? , refers to the ancient hot pot is divided into five grids, and five grids also correspond to the ancient five elements theory. Its principle is the same as that of modern hot pot. After being divided into five grids, you can cook five kinds of soups and make them into five flavors. You can also rinse different meats in each grid, including common mutton, pork, beef, dog meat and fish. To ensure that different meats don't taste. Or the guests at home have different tastes. Some people may like spicy food, while others like salty food. The ancient five-boiled cauldron can meet these requirements well. It can be seen that the ancients were not as ignorant and superstitious as we thought, and they could basically think of many things that modern people could think of.

Since the Western Han Dynasty, there have been five dry pots in the earliest hot pot, so the real primitive hot pot may have appeared earlier. Because the earliest hot pot didn't have compartments at first, people began to design and make compartment hot pot after a period of experience, similar to the current Yuanyang hot pot. What was the name of the earliest hotpot at that time? Antique soup? Take the ingredients and throw them into the hot pot soup? Hey? Is that homophonic? Antique soup? Is it? Gluttony soup? .