Reprinted from Baijiahao Author: Ermaoshuo Culture Note: This song goes with it because its melody and the singer's free and easy singing style are particularly suitable for the state of three or five friends eating hot pot, and they are carefree and unrestrained.

You can be spontaneous and free. When you go to have hot pot with your friends and listen to this song, you can feel how exciting it is. Some friends from other places said that Chongqing is a city that you will miss if you don’t come, and you won’t want to leave if you come.

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Ms. He Yongzhi, the founder of Little Swan, proudly spoke for Chongqing and said: Chongqing is the only city in the country that has three beauties - beautiful scenery, delicious food and beautiful women. Other cities can only have two beauties. There are always some regrets that one of the three is missing. Only Chongqing has three beauties.

All beauty.

First of all, in terms of food, in addition to other kinds of skewers, spicy hotpots, noodles and other street snacks, the most representative one has to be hot pot. Chongqing people can’t get enough of hot pot three meals a day. Why do they love hot pot so much?

Some medical people say it’s because Chongqing rains a lot and there is a lot of moisture, so they need to eat hot pot to dehumidify; some people in the world of martial arts say that Chongqing is just a river, and there would be no rivers and lakes without hot pot; a delicious dog said that hot pot is like a cinnabar mole on the apex of the heart, and if you eat it

Evoking eternal life... And the joker said this: Why is Chongqing hotpot famous?

Because Chongqing is like a mandarin duck pot, half is clear soup and half is red soup.

At the end, there is also a picture of the intersection of two rivers in Chaotianmen, Chongqing. Half of the water is as clear as clear soup and the other half is turbid as red soup. It is really wonderful.

However, the most important thing when eating hot pot in Chongqing is feelings, which is also the most direct way to reflect Chongqing’s humanities.

If you come from out of town, you will definitely be eager to try a hot pot meal.

Even if you have to go back and forth between the toilet and the hot pot restaurant every minute after eating, you can't stop pursuing the thrill of tongue thrusting after the hot food rolls on the tip of your tongue and your esophagus.

First of all, it will touch the sensitivity deep in your sense of taste, making you willingly stimulated by its spicy taste to make you sweat profusely, numb your mouth and tongue, and make you unable to stop.

Secondly, it will allow you to experience the passionate, bold and upright character of Chongqing people while tumbling in the hot pot and gesticulating with bare arms.

Finally, it can quickly let you get rid of the feeling of unfamiliarity. There is no sense of restraint at the traditional dining table. During the dinner, you can talk and laugh freely as you please.

On a business trip, I brought Chinese and foreign colleagues from Beijing to Chongqing. As the only local, I naturally took on the responsibility of being a guide (although it was not very professional or authentic, but it was enough for them) and talked with them about Chongqing's topography, customs and culture along the way.

, dialect characteristics... When talking about special food, they asked to eat hot pot and visit beautiful women without me talking about it. But when I explained the difference between Chongqing hot pot and northern hot pot, I said this

It’s hard to find sesame sauce and the like when eating hot pot, only clear oil bowls, and the hot pot gets spicier the more you eat it, but they still insisted on doing a tongue-trick challenge.

I was living near the airport at the time, and since I wasn't particularly familiar with that area, I couldn't find a unique hot pot restaurant, so I used my mobile phone's navigation to search for places to eat nearby, and then unanimously decided to go to a very inconspicuous restaurant.

The store has no decoration style and no special service. The chickens are caught and killed live, and no scraps are wasted.

After eating a few meals, the cultural barriers between China and foreign countries seemed to have been washed away by the one-pot, multiple-chopsticks dining method.

My Chinese colleagues who are good at English listened to what I said in Chinese and then translated it to the foreign teachers. They just watched as they widened their eyes, hahaha, and tried things on their tongues that they had never tried before.

Occasionally, when the locals dining at the table next to me were making too much noise while eating, drinking, and fist-fighting, the lovely foreigner looked puzzled and looked surprised and unreasonable. I started to explain, and my colleagues sitting next to me also helped translate.

Allay their concerns.

Perhaps from the perspective of another culture, the dining culture of Chongqing people is a bit noisy, rude, and even uncivilized (of course, some uncivilized phenomena are not ruled out), but in the eyes of locals, this is a way of recognizing the closeness of dining companions.

The best atmosphere for everyone's relationship, a casual and unrestrained sense of loyalty.

As a Chongqing person with Chongqing blood, I may have some regrets about not being able to pass on this culture, but fortunately, I remember to use my own way to understand, tolerate and promote the good culture worth passing on in this culture, and I have done my best.

After that first experience of being a local tour guide, I was both proud of myself as a local and felt ashamed of my lack of understanding of urban culture.

So I decided to ask myself to pay more attention to the culture of my hometown. Although I still didn’t understand much, I really fell in love with this city.

I love its winding alleys that climb uphill, I love its tall buildings that stand out from the mountainside, I love its light rail that has the unique ability to go up to the sky and pass through the buildings, I love its beautiful scenery and night markets with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and I also love its spicy food.

The temptation on the tip of the tongue, I love the enthusiastic, bold and upright uncles and aunts here, and the Chongqing dialect with its own sense of joy and humor.

If Chengdu is a city full of literature and art, attracting all kinds of Hanzhi girls from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to return home, then Chongqing is a city with culture. After all, spending a few days with the capital is not in vain.

No, but don’t forget that its landscape has deeply missed many literati in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and has recited many peerless classics (for specific details, ask Du Niang, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, etc.).