Why is hotpot called hotpot?

2, hot pot round, meaning reunion;

3. Hot pot uses soup to treat raw materials, which means "to be soft";

4, hot pot does not refuse meat, not too cold, regardless of north and south materials, spices do not refuse things, delicacies, seafood, tofu vermicelli, anyone can enter the pot, meaning "saving the world"; ?

5, hot pot mixed with meat and vegetables, five flavors, main ingredients, ingredients, taste penetration, meaning the beauty of "neutralization".

The origin of hot pot

So far, there are two theories. One holds that it originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the unearthed cultural relic "Dou".

Another view is that it originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Hot pot in China has a long history. Small pottery stoves used with pottery pots more than 5,000 years ago were unearthed in Zhejiang and other places. It can be easily moved, which can be regarded as the primary form of hot pot.

Bronze chafing dish in the Spring and Autumn Period unearthed from the Shanrong Cultural Site in Longqingxia, Yanqing County, Beijing, has traces of heating. In the late slave society, a small bronze tripod appeared, with a height of less than 20 cm and a caliber 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. There is an opening for feeding charcoal fire at the lower part, and holes are hollowed out around it to make ventilation holes.

Some ding bellies are shallow and there is a charcoal plate in the middle. People call this tripod "Wen Ding", which is small and convenient and can be said to be a better hot pot. In the Han Dynasty, a kind of small bronze ware called "Dyeing Furnace" and "Dyeing Cup" appeared, which was probably a small hot pot used by a single person in ancient times.