
About hot pot origin, currently has two kinds: one kind is in The Three Kingdoms period, then the era of emperor yangdi or bronze dings, "" is the predecessor of the pot, Another kind is hot, the eastern unearthed relics "fight" refers to pot. China has seen in 1900 years chafing dish of history. Chongqing hotpot in early recites thinks "3 endow" in a record. Its history at least 17 years.
The book of wei, sanguo era, cao PI and han period, has been useful mansion made of copper pot, but were not popular. At the northern and southern dynasties, people use pot cooking is increasingly. In China, people in northern cold to rinse the pig, ox, sheep, chicken, fish and meat, then various along with our country economy increasingly developed the further development of technology, cooking, various hotpot also successively. To the north, the imperial age kaifeng tavern, winter has hurricane-devastated hotpot. The qing dynasty to the flesh has become a hot, rinse the winter palace. At the beginning of qing dynasty end in the country, has formed the dozens of different pot and distinctive. Japan's room at times, hotpot introduced from China when Japan YiSanSanBaNian. Japan says for "company cover pot," says again "burn" pick. Now hotpot also spread to the United States, France, Britain and other countries.
Chafing dish, called "antique", because of feeding into the soup "loud splash when boiling water." It is China's unique cuisine, has a long history. According to research, the liberation of the cultural relics unearthed han ", namely "the wok measures for chafing dish. "Ask bai ju-yi tang poem:" column 19 new grains wine, green ant red clay small oven. Late days to snow, can drink no?" Is perfectly described the situation then feed hotpot. To the song dynasty, chafing dish of folk song, already common in the mountains LinHong home "diet, subject to the friend eat hot pot is introduced. The yuan dynasty, the Mongolian hotpot, used to boil red. To the qing dynasty, not only in the pot, and became a popular folk "court famous dishes," qing imperial diet with venison spectrum "pot", with makings is such venison pheasant. The emperor qianlong, he had to eat hotpot lot times, each to swim in a river, all equipped with pot. At first, he passed the palace in jiaqing big pendulum "or" thousands of banquet, feast on more than 155 chafing dish, was invited to reach 50 tasting, who became the largest hotpot feast.
In China, the hot pot and 100 thousand flavour. The famous seafood such as cantonese eat hot pot, bone, but not greasy pot is tasty, Jervois area of chrysanthemum chafing dish, fragrance, unique flavor, sweet god, Yunnan dian flavor pot, fresh and interesting spicy flavor, The meat fondue, enjoy xiangxi "dog rolling rolling, three immortals stood instability", Chongqing's hair, spicy hot pot, belly kn, The lamb rinse boiler in Beijing, one flavor and chic. In addition, hangzhou's "three hotpot", hubei "game" pot ", northeast China, Hong Kong's hotpot "white" beef "pot", Shanghai foundamental etc, hotpot "flavor, inviting saliva, don't for winter is the" table spring breeze ", for which the diner prurient interest.
Hot food, but is not only contain many diet culture connotation, for people to enjoy times add variety. As the northeast person entertained guests in when chafing dishes are: former custom law, left after flying fish and shrimp, right around the light cauliflower. Birds that such meat on the front of the oven, chafing dish in go earth meat, fish left behind the pot, right is shrimp, various food silk slightly. If you treat the intruder, especially in two meatballs, behind the front is hot, and motioned you leave mammal meat. In Taiwan hakka NianChuQi big eat hotpot hotpot materials on seven dishes are not, namely, garlic, onion, celery, leek, chopped fish, flesh, the implication: "hard-working, respectively, smart fellows, will be good, long and happy, and rich."
Although flavour, but the pot to eat hotpot in hygiene, pay attention to scientific, one should pay attention to, lest produce material fresh food poisoning. To grasp the temperature, if food in a pot of time is too long, can cause nutritional destroyed, and lose freshness, If the temperature range, and boil eat caused alimentary tract diseases. In addition, should notice not to eat, or scalding hot mouth and esophagus mucosa.
About 10,000 years ago, our ancestor invented the first container, ceramic, that is very large saucepan, either three or four feet, in, as long as it is to eat the food such as meat, everything throw into the pot, and then in the bottom, make food cooked fire, a pot of food, was called ", "this is the earliest soup pot. Think carefully, but no so-called salt, no more, no seasoning sauce, just a touch of meat cooked, can good? Add ding is too big, cannot move, only in certain place fixed display at any time, it is not convenient to enjoy. Hence, the ancestor of intelligent, not only to the zhou dynasty, era of iron and invented, and various ceramics product also improved make relatively small vessels, suitable for general use. Copper and iron, not only the revolution formed vessels, but also is very similar to the pot with modern, copper pans and ceramic sand pot, until now, most common or the most practical vessels, and the pot of ding finally extended as the symbol of power.