As a kind of food, hot pot has now become the first food in China, and it became popular in the Yuan Dynasty with a history of hundreds of years. But how much do you know about hot pot when you are enjoying delicious food?

As a traditional way of eating originated from the people, hot pot seems to be one of the most common ways for people in China to get together with friends, who sit around the stove, making wine and chatting. Although hot pot has undergone thousands of years of evolution, the material and distribution have changed greatly, but the most essential things have not changed, that is, cooking pot, conducting heat with water and cooking food.

The originator of hot pot is a boatman, which originated in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It has a history of more than 65,438,000 years. Today, Chongqing hot pot evolved from the earliest street snack "Water Eight Pieces". "Eight pieces of water" is the viscera discarded by cattle and sheep dealers. The tracker who pulled the boat picked them up and washed them, and then put them into a copper pot made of pebbles to mix and cook. Because Chongqing was in a humid state all the year round, the tracker put some dehumidified ingredients such as pepper and pepper into the pot to remove water, which made it taste very rich, so it became the earliest prototype of Chongqing hot pot.

So far, we still don't know who invented hot pot. Some people say it is Genghis Khan's universal hot pot. At that time, when Genghis Khan saw that the soldiers were wasting their time eating traditional barbecue mutton, he cut the mutton into small pieces and threw it into a boiling pot. Since then, there has been a hot pot in this world. The second statement mentioned above was invented by the tracker who pulled the boat. But no matter who invented it, hot pot has entered people's lives and become the most popular food.