Eating hot pot in the cold season, these historical celebrities are actually hot pot control.

When it comes to hot pot, it is the favorite of many people now. Hot pot controllers will feel that their lives are incomplete if they don’t eat hot pot for a few days. On the occasion of the great cold, it would be beautiful and quick to eat a steaming hot pot with overflowing aroma!

In fact, not only modern people, but also many famous people in ancient times were crowded with hot pot. According to Sandu Fu, hot pot has a history of more than 1700 years, but it was not called hot pot at that time, but called "antique soup". That is, at that time, the hairy belly was also included in Sandu Fu together with the antique soup, and there was a famous saying that "the Han Palace ate hot pot at sunset, and every family was drunk." It can be seen that Zuo Si, a romantic figure in Wei and Jin Dynasties, favored hot pot, and the origin of celebrities and hot pot began from then on. Then, let’s take a look at it with Xiaobian today. What other historical celebrities also like hot pot!

Chrysanthemum hotpot began with Tao Yuanming.

As we all know, Tao Yuanming, a poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, loved chrysanthemums alone. It is said that he not only invented chrysanthemum wine, but also created chrysanthemum hot pot. Every autumn, he would "pick chrysanthemums under the hedge". One day, he had a whim: what would it taste like if chrysanthemum petals were sprinkled into hot pot? It must taste good. So he cut off the white chrysanthemums in full bloom in the garden, broke off the petals and washed them, and put them into the hot pot. Later, whenever chrysanthemums were in full bloom, Tao Yuanming entertained his friends with chrysanthemum hot pot, and chrysanthemum hot pot was born.

Not only Tao Yuanming but also Empress Dowager Cixi loves chrysanthemum hot pot, which is her way of keeping in good health.

In order to keep her youthful years, Empress Dowager Cixi made an imperial decree to go to the imperial dining room together, and took "three treasures of health" as her special diet. This scene is recorded in "The Fragrance of the Royal Fragrance" written by Ms. De Ling, a close-fitting female official: Every late autumn and early winter, the imperial dining room chooses chrysanthemum petals every day, passes them through Shui Piao with alum, washes them with clear water, and when the chicken soup is boiled in a warm pot, the fish slices are served first, and then the chrysanthemum petals are served, which makes the hot pot doubly fragrant and delicious.

Chrysanthemum tastes bitter and flat, which benefits qi and blood for a long time, makes people fit, resists old age and prolongs life. Cixi designated chrysanthemum hot pot as her winter royal meal, which is really an insightful way to keep fit.

Kublai Khan named instant-boiled mutton.

Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan loved hot pot very much, and he named the famous "instant-boiled mutton" in Beijing. It is said that when Kublai Khan was commander in chief, one winter, the troops suddenly wanted to leave, and he was hungry and wanted to eat mutton very much. It’s definitely too late to stew mutton now. In a hurry, the chef sliced the mutton, boiled it in a boiling pot, and added seasonings such as salt powder and chopped green onion. Kublai Khan shouted delicious food after tasting it and led the army to win the battle. Later, a celebration banquet was held, and he paid special attention to the chef to share the mutton slices he ate on the battlefield with the soldiers as the grand finale, and named them "instant-boiled mutton".

Zhu Yuanzhang shouchuang feng mutton hotpot

According to legend, "Fengyang Hot Pot" was the initiative of Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty. On a silver hot pot in Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, there was an inscription on the left with "Children and grandchildren are full" and on the right with "Magpies falling their eyebrows". It can be roughly speculated that Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood when eating hot pot.

Gan long yue chi 66 ci hotpot

Of all dynasties, the Qing people were the ones who liked and ate hot pot best. The tableware of hot pot in Qing Dynasty is dazzling, and the types of hot pot are also rich and colorful, making it a famous "palace dish". In the court of Qing dynasty, there were many "warm pots" and "hot pots" in the daily diet records, which was another name for hot pot.

Almost every emperor in the Qing dynasty liked to eat hot pot, especially Qianlong. As long as the weather turned cold, almost every meal was served with hot pot. Take the imperial cuisine archives from August 16th to September 16th in the 44th year of Qianlong (AD 1779) as an example. During this month, Qianlong shared 23 kinds of hot pots and used them 66 times.

Among these hot pots, there are soup bases such as chicken and duck hot pot, Shuyi hot pot, whole sheep hot pot, yellow sheep slice hot pot, and different ingredients such as venison, dog meat, tofu and various vegetables. Don’t worry about it. Jin Yi and Shen Yiling sorted out the situation of eating hot pot in the palace according to the memory of the ladies in the late Qing Dynasty in "Talking to the Maids". "Since October 15th, every meal has been filled with assorted pots and instant-boiled mutton, and the northeast’s habit is to eat sauerkraut, blood sausage, white meat, white sliced chicken and cut belly. We often eat this kind of pot ","and sometimes we eat pheasant pot. Anyway, we have three whole months to eat pots. "

Eating hot pot for three months, it seems that it is not easy to be an emperor, and the stomach can stand the test of hot pot.

You can see how luxurious the hot pot Ganlong ate from the bottom file of Qing Palace food preserved in the archives. For example, in the 16th day of the first month of the 30th year of Qianlong, the first dish was a bird’s nest, red and white duck, and the first dish for dinner that day was a bird’s nest, duck and hot pot. On the seventeenth day of the first month, the first dish is bird’s nest, fat chicken and fish, and the first dish for dinner is pheasant hot pot; On the 18th day of the first month, we had breakfast, the first dish was fried chicken, stir-fried meat and stewed sauerkraut, and the first dish for dinner was lotus seed and duck.

Among the many hot pot ingredients that Ganlong loves, there is a "wild hot pot", which is still popular among the people in Northeast China. This hot pot is made of tin, which is divided into upper and lower layers. It is not as high as a foot. In the middle, copper is used as a fire tube to burn charcoal. When the soup is boiling, all the preserved meat, chicken and fish are cooked, and their taste is delicious. The rich have both ginseng and tendons, supplemented by pigs, sheep, cows, fish, chickens, ducks, pheasants, shrimps, crab meat or dumplings. " Most of these game products are specialties of Daxing ‘anling and Changbai Mountain in Northeast China. Manchu nobles like to ride horses and hunt, and it is not difficult to get these game products from the mountains.

Ganlong also likes to have fun with the people and hold hot pot dam banquets many times. In the forty-eighth year of Qianlong (1783), on the tenth day of the first month, he hosted 530 tables of hot pot at a time in the banquet hall of Ganqing Palace. In the fifty years of Qianlong (1785) and the sixty years of Qianlong (1795), he held two thousand banquets, inviting old people from all over the country to the palace for dinner. On the first-class table, there were "one silver and tin hot pots" and on the second-class table, there were "two copper hot pots", so that the old people could eat steaming food after the red tape. When I arrived at Jiaqing Emperor, it was even more "awkward". At the enthronement ceremony, 1,550 tables of hot pot banquets were held, and more than 5,000 people were invited to taste it. The scene was spectacular.

(Source: Guangming. com, Huaxi Dushi Bao)

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