Hotpot and shabu-shabu are different in terms of their origins and history, and their specific differences are:

1. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, pots and pans were the earliest prototypes of hot pots, and according to evidence, there were hot pots and pans during the Warring States period, when people used clay pots as pots and pans, and during the Song Dynasty, hot pots and pans were very common among the general public, while shabu-shabu began during the Yuan Dynasty and flourished during the Qing Dynasty.

2. The traditional way of eating is different. Shabu-shabu is eaten by placing slices of raw mutton directly into the pot, while traditional hot pot is eaten by placing slices of pork and meat into the hot pot and scalding them.

3. The origin of hotpot is different. The origin of hot pot there are two sayings, one said in China during the Three Kingdoms period or Wei Wendi era, when the "copper tripod", is the predecessor of the hot pot; another said that the hot pot began in the Eastern Han Dynasty, unearthed artifacts in the "bucket" refers to the hot pot.

And shabu-shabu originated in the Yuan Dynasty, when ancestor Kublai commanded a large army on an expedition to the south. One day, when he was tired and hungry, he remembered the mutton stew from his hometown and ordered his men to kill the sheep and make a fire. When the cooks were slaughtering the sheep and cutting the meat, the scout horse galloped into the tent to report that the enemy army was approaching.

Hungry Kublai was waiting to eat mutton, he ordered the troops to pull out one side shouted: "mutton! Mutton!" . The chef knew that he was irritable, so in a hurry, the knife cut down more than ten thin slices of meat, placed in boiling water and stirred a few times, to be a change in the color of the meat, immediately fished into a bowl, sprinkled with fine salt, and has since produced a shabu shabu.

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