After we hurried back from the primitive Shennongjia deep forest to join the others, everyone enthusiastically asked us where we were going to go next? We deliberately said casually: "Or Yuzhou, it's very close to here, and I heard that the food there is very exciting." "The other people were hungry, and when they heard us say that the food over there was delicious, they were even more interested, happy, and unanimously agreed, so everyone was elated all the way, talking and laughing and galloping towards Yuzhou.

Finally we trekked through mountains and rivers, thousands of miles, the wind and dust came to the territory of Yuzhou, although at this moment it was already night, the fog was filled, but everywhere there were brilliant lights, the scene of fire trees and silver flowers, the yellow-orange-orange wick, the lanterns covered with red sheepskin swayed in the night wind, showing the richness and strength of the Great Song Kingdom. Although Yuzhou in the Great Song Dynasty and Chongqing, an Internet celebrity city in modern society, are the same place, they have a completely different feeling. There is no magic of modern society here, there is no high-rise buildings of modern society, the scales are compared, but there is a little more quaint and ancient taste, the citizens who wear the clothes of the Great Song Dynasty come and go is a sharp contrast with the people wearing different clothes in the modern society that we have searched out in our memories, and it makes us feel extremely lost, melancholy and deepened the determination to find the time machine。

We take a closer look, we are in the mighty Yangtze River on the side of the Chaotianmen, docked on the shore of a few canopy fishing boats, the vast night sky, the sparks are dotted, the sky is shining with stars reflected, especially meaningful, particularly beautiful, only the Yangtze River, the starry sky, the river, the flat boat, it seems particularly quiet and distant, it looks particularly like the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh created in 1888, showing the night scene of the Rhône in the southern French city of Arles - "Starry Night on the Rhône (Starry Sky)". I guess the same dreamlike scene gives us the same feeling, and if I lift the brush, I can also paint the same beautiful impressionist masterpiece, the starry sky on the Tianmen of the Great Song Dynasty. The starlight in the dark blue sky and the reflection of the shore lights respond to each other, which is really refreshing and pleasant, and people can't help but think of Zhang Ji's poem - the moon falls and the sky is full of frost, and Jiang Feng is sleeping. Hanshan Temple outside the city of Gusu, the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship.

And the fragrance of the endless ten-mile fragrant hot pot is from the boat, we are curious to see, did not expect that the boat is a business restaurant, an endless stream of casually dressed Song people to the inside of the joyful rush there, we are also curious to follow their brisk steps, tiptoe into it. It seems that the chili peppers we planted in the Great Song Dynasty are here in Chongqing to make the best use of them, all the rage, favored by the people of Chongqing, and the grace is very good, it seems that the people of Chongqing have a soft spot for chili peppers since ancient times, and the traditional Chinese diet of Chongqing hot pot was born in advance, hundreds of years in advance, we are really meritorious heroes, and we are indispensable.

The boat owner also welcomed us warmly, seeing that we were a little hesitant and hesitant, and said busily: " Everyone, don't hesitate, today fortunately you came early, wait, you can wait in a long line, you see, sitting in our swaying, swaying with the wind, rippling in the water in the flat boat, looking at the breeze and the moon, looking at the stars, eating the hot pot, how beautiful it feels, you don't hesitate, there is no place one step later, you hurry up and sit down, it is better to come early than to come by coincidence, this table has just finished eating, the location by the window is particularly good, you just look at the menu, order more, you are lucky, see no, the people behind are now starting to line up- "We quickly thanked the shopkeeper, respectfully sat down next to the rare good position by the window, and talked with Xiao Er, while ordering food, while losing no time in looking at the boundless night outside the boat, the scenery is infinite.

Xiao Er said sprinkled: "Ladies and gentlemen, I will now talk about the history of our hot pot, we are now in Chaotianmen, where the two rivers flow, in fact, it used to be a place to slaughter livestock, after slaughtering the cow, as long as its meat, bones, skin, but the internal organs of the cow are discarded, the sailors and slender men on the shore pick it up, wash it and pour it into the pot, add chili, pepper, ginger, garlic, salt and other spicy things, boil and eat, one to fill the stomach, the other to drive away the cold, dispel dampness, over time, it has become the earliest and most famous spicy hairy belly hot pot here. Therefore, our hot pot originated from Chaotianmen Wharf. Because Ba and Shu are known for their delicious and spicy eating habits, seasoning with chili peppers and peppercorns, the extensive dining methods of these dock boatmen and slender men, and the cheap and affordable street public food stalls eaten by these wharves and street people. The eight pieces of water are all miscellaneous from cattle (hairy tripe, liver waist and ox blood wang), as well as pig yellow throat, duck intestines, ox blood wang and so on. Raw cut into thin slices and placed in several different dishes on the plate, the spicy butter marinade is boiled in the casserole on the tandoor of the food stall, the eater brings his own wine, chooses his own style, stands in front of the stall, picks up the raw slices in the plate, and eats it hot. After eating, the price is calculated as an empty plate. The price is low, affordable, and easy to eat, so it is popular with dock lifu, peddlers' pawns, and the urban poor. After we hawkers who carry burdens and sell them in small quantities, we wash and boil them, then cut the liver, belly, etc. into small pieces, put a tandoor at the head of the burden, and put a large iron basin on the stove, also called Jiugongge, and there is a kind of numb, spicy and salty marinade in the basin, so the workers who generally sell labor at the bridgehead by the river will be used around the burden. Everyone thinks that a grid and hot and eat, eat a number of pieces, count a number of money, both economical, and can increase calories, come to eat the guest officers are really endless, and then many small traders pick up the burden along the street to sell, but our host feels that there are still not many fixed guests, so ingenuity, we have local ingredients, according to local conditions, opened a tavern on a small fishing boat near the wharf of Chaotianmen, moved from the head to the table, the tandoor is still, only the grid iron basin is replaced by a small copper pot, marinade, The dipping sauce has also been changed to be made by diners to make it clean and suitable for everyone's tastes. The hot pot selection is all-encompassing, and the dishes have developed to more than 100 kinds, including edible things in the food kingdom, and the dishes have expanded to poultry, aquatic products, seafood, game, animal offal, all kinds of vegetables and dried and fresh mushrooms and fruits. On the basis of hairy belly hot pot, it has developed into clear soup hot pot, mandarin duck hot pot, beer duck hot pot, fat cow hot pot, spicy chicken hot pot and so on, with more than 100 varieties. However, there are different hot pot containers, preparation methods and seasonings, but one thing in common remains the same, that is, the pot is heated with fire, and the soup is used to conduct heat and cook food. ”

Wang Gongzi listened to it for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, he continued to gush: "In fact, this cooking method has appeared as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it can be said that it is the prototype of hot pot. It is recorded in the "Han Poetry Biography" that in ancient sacrifices or celebrations, it was necessary to "strike the bell and list the ding" and eat, that is, everyone gathered around the tripod and put beef and mutton and other foods into the tripod to cook and eat, which was the sprout of hot pot. After the evolution of the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties, it was not until our Great Song Dynasty that there was really a record of hot pot. Lin Hong, a native of the Song Dynasty, mentioned in his "Mountain Family Qing Offering" about eating hot pot, that is, what he called "Diaxia Offering", and talked about his trip to Wuyi Mountain, visiting the teacher, and getting a rabbit in the snow, without a chef to cook it. Shi Yun, only thin batches are used in the mountains, and wine, sauce, and pepper are fertile. Set up a table with a wind stove, use half a chop of water, wait for a cup of soup to ring, and then divide each with a chopstick, so that the soup is cooked (shabu-shabu), and the juice is freely used for each person to dip at will. So from the perspective of how I eat it, it is similar to your hot pot, this ancient person is really similar to you, but it is a hot pot with rabbit meat. ”