Did you find out? Among the cultural relics recently unearthed in Sanxingdui, there is a "pottery three-legged cooker" that resembles the hot pot we use now. Did the ancients also love to eat hot pot?
After seeing this cultural relic, some netizens said:
Sichuan hot pot has been handed down for thousands of years
There are also netizens who discuss it
Samsung pile people's hot pot base and side dishes
In fact, this is a "pottery three-legged cooker"
It is a pot used to steam food
Its "foot" is hollow
Communicates with the mouth
The water capacity is very large
Heat up under the foot
Hot pot is a temptation that mortals cannot resist, it claims to be invincible in the world, a "pot" shot, any trouble can be thrown out of the clouds.
According to research, the pre-Qin period
There is the prototype of hot pot
At that time, the pots were mainly clay pots and copper pots
Called "bucket"
The tripods of Zhou dynasty may be the earliest prototypes of the hot pot. Diners among the nobility each had a personal pot made of bronze, and called ran lu (燃炉). The main part of ran lu was a small stove with a small pot above burning charcoal.
The three-legged Ding of the Zhou Dynasty may be the earliest prototype of hot pot. The diners of the rich and aristocratic have personal pots, which are made of bronze, called burning stoves. The main body of the stove is a small stove with a small pot on top and charcoal burning underneath.
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And Su Wu, who shepherds sheep, is said to have also made miraculous contributions to the development of hot pot.
It is said that Su Wu lived in a bitter cold place and held the banner and herded sheep for nineteen years. Emperor Wu went to the court, and Emperor Xuan returned to the court. However, after returning, Emperor Xuan was shocked when he summoned him: he only saw that Su Wuhuajia was old, but he was still physically strong.
Emperor Xuan of Han made "Su Wu Gui Yuan Tang" and became one of the imperial meals.
Although this anecdote of Su Wu is not recorded in the examination
However, the "Five Grids of Dingding" excavated from the tomb of Liu Fei, the King of the Western Han Dynasty
It is very similar to the current Nine Palace Grid hot pot
Liu Fei, the King of Jiangdu, was good at literature
Therefore, some people speculate that Liu Fei's five grids are ding
It may be modeled on the five elements of the ancients
Don't say, the ancients really enjoyed it!
As far as the Tang and Song dynasties, hot pot was even more popular throughout the country.
Green ant new wine, red clay small stove.
Late to the day want snow, can you drink a cup of nothing?
I have some recently fermented wine,
The small terracotta pot stove is warm and inviting.
There's a feeling of snow coming after dark,
Would you like to join me for a drink tonight?
——Tang Baijuyi, "Ask Liu Nineteen"
The poem brilliantly describes the scene of eating hot pot at that time.
There is nothing to sit around the small stove
Drink a little wine, a dish of meat
It's not happy
Lin Hong of the Song Dynasty recorded such a story in the "Mountain Family Qing Confession":
One day Lin Hong went into the mountains to search for a hermit, and on the way he caught a hare. Lin Hong wanted to roast and eat it, who knew that the hermit hurriedly stopped Lin Hong.
The hermit said, "You set up a small charcoal stove on the table, set up a soup pot, cut the rabbit meat into thin slices, make a soup with wine, sauce, and pepper spices, and when the soup is opened, add slices of meat and cook them in the soup, and eat them with small ingredients!" “
Lin Hong tasted it, praised it, and composed a poem "The waves are clear and the snow is clear, and the wind turns over the sunset". Say this how to eat, wonderful!
The white soup in the pot was as white as snow when it boiled, and the bright red slices of meat were as rosy as the sunset.
During the Yuan Dynasty, hot pot spread to Inner Mongolia and was used to cook beef and mutton
This way of eating, I have to thank Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty.
A wild game hot pot lover
In the "Travels of Marco Polo", there is a record of Marco Polo eating shabu lamb hot pot in the imperial palace of the Yuan Capital. Thus, the English translation of shabu lamb is Mogolian hot pot, and the French translation is La fondue mongole, both meaning Mongolian hot pot.
Promote the hot pot to the national hot pursuit of the temple level with goods bloggers,
None other than Qianlong.
By the Qing Dynasty, hot pot was not only popular in the folk
And it became a famous "court dish"
There is a "wild game hot pot" on the Qing Palace Imperial Diet Recipe
The ingredients are wild game such as pheasant
The Qianlong Emperor became addicted to eating hot pot, and he traveled to Jiangnan many times
Everywhere you go, there are hot pots
Legend
This grandfather once set a record of 60 times of eating hot pot in two consecutive months!
During the Qing dynasty, hot pot became popular among the emperors. In particular, the Qianlong Emperor was very fond of hot pot and would eat it for almost every meal.
During the Qing Dynasty, hot pot became popular among emperors. The Qianlong Emperor was particularly fond of eating hot pot, eating almost every meal.
When Jiaqing ascended the throne
Qianlong even threw a feast of a thousand monks
There are 1550 tables of hot pot in the table
More than 5,000 people were invited to taste it, which was extremely luxurious
It became the largest hot pot feast in history
Later, the Jiaqing Emperor also had a banquet with 1,550 hot pots at his coronation.
Later, the Jiaqing Emperor also held a banquet with 1550 hot pots at the coronation ceremony.
Cixi at the end of the Qing Dynasty took a different path
I love chrysanthemum hot pot
According to the "Imperial Fragrance Ethereal Record"
Cixi was in a pot full of chicken soup
Add sashimi, cover and simmer for a few minutes before sprinkling in the chrysanthemums
Delicious
Empress Dowager Cixi was also known to have enjoyed hot pot, especially in the winter months.
Empress Dowager Cixi also liked to eat hot pot, especially in winter with fine noodles.
From clay containers to delicate copper dings, from single flavors to patterns of nine square grids, from traditional ingredients to imported products from thousands of miles... Over the past 2,000 years, hot pot has witnessed the development of human wisdom and the unremitting pursuit of taste on the tip of the tongue, which together constitute our "gastronomic genes".