On the origin of hot pot, there are two ways of saying: one says it was in the Three Kingdoms period or the Wei Dynasty, when the "copper tripod", is the predecessor of the hot pot; the other says that the hot pot began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, unearthed artifacts in the "bucket" refers to the hot pot. It can be seen that the hot pot has a history of more than 1900 years in China. Chengdu hot pot as early as Zuo Si's "three capitals" of the "Shu Du Fu" in the record. Its history can be seen in more than 1700 years.

The Book of Wei records that during the Three Kingdoms era, when Cao Pi was the emperor of Han, there were hot pots made of copper, but they were not popular at that time. During the North and South Dynasties, people used hot pots to cook various kinds of meat, such as pork, beef, sheep, chicken and fish, and later, as China's economy and culture became more and more developed, cooking technology developed further, and various kinds of hot pots made their debut one after another.

To the Northern Song Dynasty, Bianjing Kaifeng tavern, winter has hot pot should be marketed. During the Qing Dynasty, hotpot shabu-shabu became a winter delicacy at the court. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, dozens of different hot pots with their own specialties had been formed across the country. In the Muromachi period of Japan, hot pot was introduced to Japan from China in 1338. In Japan, hot pot is called "sukiyaki" or "hoe-yaki". Nowadays, hot pot has also spread to the United States, France, the United Kingdom and other countries.

Hotpot is an ancient name for "antique soup," named for the "gurgling" sound that occurs when ingredients are thrown into boiling water. It is an original Chinese cuisine with a long history. It has been proven that the "Wok Dipper", a cultural relic from the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed after the liberation of China, is a hot pot. In the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi's poem "Ask Liu XIX" reads: "New grains of green ants and wine, a small fireplace of red clay. The sky is snowing in the evening, can I have a glass of wine?" The poem describes the scene of eating hot pot at that time. By the Song Dynasty, hot pot food in the folk has been common, the Southern Song Dynasty Lin Hong's "mountain home Qingsui" recipes, there are his friends with the introduction of hot pot. During the Yuan Dynasty, the hot pot spread to Mongolia, where it was used to cook beef and mutton.

To the Qing Dynasty, hot pot is not only prevalent in the folk, and has become a famous "palace dishes", the Qing Palace Imperial recipes on the "game hot pot", the ingredients are pheasant and other wild game. Emperor Qianlong ate hot pot into a fetish, he has traveled to Jiangnan many times, every place, are equipped with hot pot. According to legend, he was in the first month of the first year of Jiaqing in the palace, "thousand old man feast" seat *** on the hot pot more than 1550, invited to taste more than 5,000 people, into the history of the largest hot pot feast.

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