Wenbo Calendar There was a dining system in the Western Han Dynasty, and even the ＂hot pot＂ had a single pot.

　　Eat hot pot with western Han people

　　How to eat to show that you are a "hot pot man"?

　　Three points to take you to know the standard of western Han hot pot

　　Bronze dyeing furnace

　　01

　　What is a dyeing furnace?

　　It is a "dip hotpot" in the Western Han Dynasty.

　　Modern people often say

　　"Nothing.

　　It can’t be solved by a hot pot.

　　If one meal doesn’t work, just two meals. "

　　People in the Western Han Dynasty heard this and said, I agree.

　　After all, they have already got the delicious hot pot.

　　Bronze dyeing furnaceIs the best evidence.

　　Dyeing furnace = hot pot has experienced n conjectures in the middle.

　　Is it a "cooking furnace" for warm meat soup?

　　Is it a "wine warming stove" for warming wine?

　　Is it a "fuming stove" for incense?

　　Is it a "dyeing furnace" for dyeing silk?

　　……

　　Finally, scholars based on

　　An inscription on a dyeing machine"Qinghe Food Officer"speculate

　　This kind of utensils should be in the charge of the food officer in the imperial court.

　　It’s an ancient one.Eating utensils

　　The bronze dyeing furnace consists of three parts.

　　Plate, oven, ear cup

　　Most of them are found in tombs in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty.

　　The geographical distribution is very wide

　　In Hunan, Henan, Shanxi, Jiangxi and other places.

　　Have been unearthed

　　This bronze dyeing furnace was unearthed in

　　Tomb of Liu He, the sea faint Hou in Nanchang, Jiangxi.

　　△ Source: China National Museum

　　When the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty feasted.

　　Put the seasoning in the ear cup first

　　And then heated by the furnace below.

　　Finally, put the cooked meat into the ear cup.

　　Mix with seasoning

　　Carry out "secondary processing"

　　Make the meat taste and seasoning taste blend with each other before eating.

　　Eat while you are hot and "dye" with eating.

　　It can be called a "small hotpot" of the Western Han people.

　　02

　　What meat and ingredients are there in the hot pot of the Western Han Dynasty?

　　People in the Western Han Dynasty not only ate "hot pot"

　　The meat in the hot pot is also varied.

　　Horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs and chickens are the "six animals"

　　It is the source of meat for the Western Han people.

　　But because horses and cattle are one of the important "labors"

　　So you can’t eat easily

　　Pigs, dogs and chickens became the main sources of meat for Western Han people.

　　Even appeared at that time.

　　Professional pig farmers, professional dog butchers, chicken experts, etc.

　　△ Eastern Han green glazed pottery pigsty. Collected by Hunan Museum

　　In addition to rich and varied meat,

　　The seasoning package of the Western Han Dynasty is almost the same as that of modern times.

　　haveSalt, sauce, fermented soybean, vinegar, sugar.wait for

　　In addition to salt as seasoning

　　After the Han people fermented the grain,

　　Make into soybean paste, fermented soybean, acyl (xΡ)/vinegar (cΡ).

　　Also, the germinated barley is fried into a pulp (yí) (similar to maltose).

　　It can be seen that people in the Western Han Dynasty ate almost as much as people now.

　　03

　　One person and one pot

　　People in the Han Dynasty paid attention to the dining system.

　　The dyeing furnace unearthed at present

　　The height is generally 10~14 cm.

　　This height of "hot pot"

　　It is in line with the way of eating in Han Dynasty.

　　Eat on the floor+eat separately

　　△ Source: Nanchang Han Dynasty Haifaint Houguo Site Museum

　　So when the nobles gave a banquet,

　　Food will be put on the table or at the feast.

　　People are sitting on the seats.

　　Now people often say that banquets, banquets

　　Probably from this.

　　△ Source: Nanchang Han Dynasty Haifaint Houguo Site Museum

　　People sit on the table.

　　Wine and food are on the table

　　Eat separately.

　　Probably the life of the nobles in the Han Dynasty.

　　△ Banquet portrait brick, seven people in the picture are sitting on the table, and there are several tables in front of the table to hold wine utensils and tableware. Collected by Sichuan Museum

　　On the Han Dynasty stone reliefs unearthed at present

　　There are often feasts where people sit on the floor and one person is involved.

　　Vividly reappeared people’s eating habits at that time.

　　Ancient people who never tire of eating essence.

　　I really put some thought into eating.

　　Whether it is the banquet of ancient nobles

　　Or three meals a day for ordinary people

　　Bronze dyeing furnace bears witness to the history of food culture.

　　It also records the real fireworks.

　　Producer Tang Yi

Producer Wu Huifeng

Copywriter Rong Mengyan

Visual sense Zhu Lingmeng

Technical officer Cai zixu

Revising Zhu Dongmei

Co-ordinator Liu Ying Dai Guangyu

Special thanks to China Cultural Relics Newspaper Office, Jiangxi General Station, Jiangxi Provincial Museum Desk.