A famous city with a long history of wine culture, a sacred place in the hearts of national drinkers, the origin of hot pot is still inconclusive. However, from the very beginning, human food culture has cooking methods such as cooking pots, conducting heat with water and cooking food.

Brief introduction of hot pot

In ancient times, some emperors had a certain complex with hot pot. Kublai Khan in Yuan Shizu likes to eat hot pot. One winter, the army suddenly left. He was hungry and insisted on eating mutton. In desperation, the clever chef sliced the mutton, blanched 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 named it instant-boiled mutton. According to legend, Yang Shen, a writer of the Ming Dynasty, accompanied his father Yang Tinghe when he was a child and gave a banquet in hongzhi emperor Imperial Garden. There is a hot pot of instant-boiled mutton on the banquet, and charcoal is burning in the fire. Hongzhi emperor took this opportunity to make a pair of couplets. The black carbon was like snow, and the ministers immediately looked at each other.

At this point, the young Yang Shen quietly sang the second duet to his father, who read his son's antithesis to the emperor. The emperor was very happy and immediately enjoyed a glass of royal wine. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was also fascinated by hot pot. He has traveled to Jiangnan many times, and there are hot pots everywhere.

According to legend, in the first month of the first year of Jiaqing, he held a banquet in the palace, served more than 550 hot pots/kloc-0, and invited more than 5,000 people to taste it, making it the largest hot pot feast in history.