Some of the ancient emperors were really
into hot pot.
The first example is Hu Bilei in Yuan dynasty.One day in winter, when his army was about
to marching, he suddenly hungered for mutton. With few cooking material, his
smart cook suddenly came up with a good idea that cut the mutton into slices to
boil in water pot added green onion and sauce. Surprisingly, Hu Bilei was full
of praise for the dish, and even after he ruled the country, he didn’t forget
the dish and named it mutton shabu.
In Ming Dynasty, it's said that once his father took Yang
Shen, a Ming dynasty’s litterateur at his childhood to a wine feast in imperial
garden held by Emperor Hongzhi. Seeing the mutton hot pot with charcoal
burning, Emperor Hongzhi made a first line about the scene, and asked his officials
to finish the next. Instantly, the officials stared at each other awkwardly. At
that moment, Yang Shen made the second line and whispered to his father. The emperor
was so pleased when Yang’s father repeated to him the second line and rewarded
yang’s father a glass of wine.
Qian Long Emperor in Qing dynasty also had preference
to hot pot. He has been to southern China many times, where he must ate hot pot
every time he stayed. According to history record, he held a thousand elderly
feast in the first year of Jiaqin period, with 1550 hot pot and 5000 people in
total, which was said to be the biggest feast of hot pot.
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