In the middle of winter, eating nothing is more healing than hot pot, and the ancients naturally would not let go of such enjoyment. So do you know how ancient people ate hotpot? Ancient people used to eat authentic food. Let's have a look.
In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, even in the early Shang Dynasty tomb archaeology, hotpot was unearthed. From 1974 to 1975, two tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty were excavated in rujiazhuang, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. There are a lot of funerary objects, including more than 1500 bronze, pottery and various jade ornaments. In more than 60 copper containers, there are two hot pots. One of them was unearthed in tomb No. 2, with the inscription "baizhajing Jiding". According to the analysis, this was the hot pot at that time. From the perspective of its capacity, the full dish was only enough for one person to eat. This was not the "small hot pot" at that time
During the Han and Wei dynasties, it was more common for people to eat hot pot. According to archaeological findings, people at that time had already eaten five palace lattices that could be put into different soup and cooked with different tastes. Nanjing Museum unearthed a dividing tripod in Xuyi county, Jiangsu Province, is to divide the tripod into five different cooking spaces, in fact, it is a modern "five palace grid" hot pot. Liu Fei, the owner of the tomb and the capital of the Western Han Dynasty, was a real hotpot. It can be imagined that he took his family and sat around eating hotpot and drinking wine.
Among all the dynasties, the Qing people liked and could eat hot pot most. In the Qing Dynasty, hot pot was not only popular among the people, but also became a famous' palace dish '. It was called hot pot in the Qing palace. Its texture includes ceramics, pure silver, silver plated gold, copper, tin and iron.