Hot pot, an ancient name? Antique soup? , due to feeding into boiling water? Hey? Named after the sound. Some modern cultural celebrities also have a special liking for hot pot. Hu Shi, a celebrity, loves hot pot in Huizhou, his hometown. When entertaining guests at home, most of them are carefully cooked by his wife to entertain them.
history of hot pot
some emperors in ancient times had a certain complex with hot pot, and Kublai Khan in Yuan Shizu liked to eat hot pot.
One winter, the army suddenly started to March, and he was hungry and insisted on eating mutton. In a hurry, the clever chef sliced the mutton, scalded it in a boiling pot, and added seasoning, chopped green onion and other things. Kublai Khan was full of praise after eating it.
Later, when he became emperor, he still remembered this dish and gave it the name "instant-boiled mutton". According to legend, Yang Shen, a writer of the Ming Dynasty, went to hongzhi emperor with his father Yang Tinghe for a banquet in the imperial garden when he was a child.
At the banquet, there was a hot pot with instant-boiled mutton, and charcoal was burning in the fire. hongzhi emperor got a couplet, and the couplet said, "Carbon black is as red as snow." The ministers were asked to tell them right, and they all looked at each other at once.
At this time, Yang Shen, a young man, quietly chanted the next couplet to his father: "Yellow rice and rice are as white as frost". His father then read his son's antithesis to the emperor, who was so pleased that he immediately enjoyed a glass of royal wine.
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty also became addicted to hot pot. He visited Jiangnan many times and prepared hot pot everywhere.
according to legend, in the first month of the first year of Jiaqing, he held a grand banquet in the palace, where more than 1,55 hot pots were served and more than 5, people were invited to taste them, making it the biggest hot pot feast in history.
Modern Hot Pot
Some cultural celebrities in modern times also have a special liking for hot pot. Celebrity Hu Shi loves Huizhou hot pot in his hometown. When entertaining guests at home, most of them are carefully cooked by his wife to entertain them.
Liang Shiqiu, a famous writer, described the deep impression left by Huizhou hot pot and Hu Shi's preference for Huizhou hot pot in an essay entitled "Two or Three Events of Mr. Hu Shi".
When Xie Tian, a famous film director, was in Chongqing in his early years, he liked to eat Chongqing hot pot, so he was a "glutton" who loved hot pot.
Nowadays, with the progress of science and technology and the development of cooking skills, the varieties of hot pot are colorful and have their own characteristics, including charcoal hot pot, gas hot pot, electric hot pot, alcohol hot pot and so on. As far as texture is concerned, there are tin chafing dish, aluminum chafing dish, stainless steel chafing dish and enamel chafing dish. According to the structure, there are conjoined hot pot, split hot pot and Yuanyang hot pot. According to the cooking style, there are soup-stewed hot pot, stewed hot pot and boiled hot pot.
the variety of hot pots adds a bit of excitement to the dining table.
There are different styles in thousands of miles, and different customs in hundreds of miles. The hot pots in China are colorful and varied. The famous ones are seafood hot pots in Guangdong, and the seafood is rinsed. The ingredients are very particular, and the taste and taste are the most important. The food is not greasy, and the taste is endless; Chrysanthemum hot pot in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the hot pot soup is chicken soup or broth, supplemented by thin slices of meat, fish, chicken and chrysanthemum, which is fragrant and refreshing and has a unique flavor; Yunnan's Yunnan-flavored hot pot is characterized by the fact that it must be filled with cloud legs and served with raw materials such as mushrooms and fish, which are tender, spicy and full of flavor. The beef omasum hotpot in Chongqing has the characteristics of diverse raw materials, thick and fresh brine soup, spicy and mellow flavor.
In addition, mutton hotpot in Beijing, Basheng hotpot in Zhejiang, "Sanxian hotpot" in Hangzhou, "Game hotpot" in Hubei, "White Meat hotpot" in Northeast China, "Beef hotpot" in Hong Kong, "Assorted hotpot" in Shanghai and "Mutton soup hotpot" in Shandong also have unique flavors.
Hot pot is not only delicious food, but also contains the connotation of food culture, which adds elegance to people's taste.
When eating hot pot, men, women, children, relatives and friends gather around the steaming hot pot, holding their arms and waving their hands, which is full of warmth and harmony, which is suitable for the traditional culture of China.
In Northeast China, when people entertain guests, there are quite some rules for placing dishes in the hot pot: fly before you go, fish on the left and shrimp on the right, and cauliflower is sprinkled around, that is, the meat of flying birds is placed in the hot pot opposite to the mouth of the stove. In front, the meat of walking animals is placed behind the hot pot, fish on the left and shrimp on the right, and all kinds of shredded vegetables are put a little, just like "the stars hold the moon" to show respect.
if you treat uninvited guests, put two extra-large meatballs in front of the hot pot, followed by animal meat, to signal your departure.
In Chongqing, we also pay attention to eating hot pot. Generally, the most basic seasonings are onion, ginger, garlic and sesame oil, so that we can eat the original flavor of hot pot.
There are rules for scalding vegetables. First, eat ingredients such as hairy belly and duck intestines. The scalding method is: seven times and eight times, so that the scalded vegetables are the most tender.
entertaining guests or having dinner with friends, a hot pot and a few bottles of Chongqing people's favorite Jiang Xiaobai can best meet the hot and enthusiastic personality of Chongqing people.
most Hakka people in Taiwan Province eat hot pot on the seventh day of lunar new year's eve, and seven kinds of hot pot materials are indispensable, namely celery, garlic, onion, turnip, leek, fish and meat, which respectively mean "diligence, numeracy, intelligence, good popularity, long-term happiness, surplus and abundance".
the form of hot pot
China's hot pot has a long history.
A small pottery stove used with a pottery kettle was unearthed in Zhejiang and other places more than 5, years ago, which can be easily moved and can be regarded as the primary form of hot pot.
The bronze chafing dish of the Spring and Autumn Period unearthed from the Shanrong cultural site in Longqingxia, Yanqing, Beijing, has traces of heating.
In the late slave society, a small bronze tripod appeared, with a height of less than 2 cm and a diameter of about 15 cm.
Some ding and furnace are combined into one, that is, an interlayer is cast in the ding, which divides the belly of the ding into upper and lower parts. The lower part has an opening, which can be used to feed charcoal fire. The smoke holes hollowed out around it are shallow, and there is a charcoal plate in the middle of the ding. People call this type of ding? Wen ding? It is small and convenient, so it can be said to be a better hot pot.
in the Han dynasty, there was a phenomenon called? Dyeing furnace? 、? Dye the cup? The structure of the small bronze ware is divided into three parts: the main body is a charcoal stove; There is a cup with food on it, and the volume is generally 25 to 3 ml; There is a tray for charcoal fire below.
It can be inferred that this is a small hot pot used by a single person in ancient times.
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, hot pot became popular, and officials and celebrities held banquets and prepared more hot pots.
in the five dynasties, there were five squares of hot pot, which were divided into five squares for guests to rinse.
At that time, hot pot was also called warm pot, one was made of copper and the other was made of pottery, which was mainly used for cooking meat.
By the Qing Dynasty, all kinds of hotpot with meat hotpot had become the palace's winter delicacies.
Hot pot is a unique way to eat food in China. The circular design of hot pot makes diners integrate into a circle, which also indicates the traditional custom of China people to pay attention to reunion. This kind of eating with carbon heated water for cooking beef and mutton in winter also conforms to the eating habits of Manchu people.
when emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, in the grand palace banquet, in addition to delicacies, land and water, 1,65 hot pots were specially used to entertain guests, making it the biggest hot pot banquet in Chinese history.