Despite this, many ancient dishes remain popular today. Join us as The Post guides you through some favourites. More than 10,000 years ago, people began using clay pots to boil food in water ...

and possibly one of the earliest users of the Chinese script. In 2017 and 2018, the site was excavated, revealing a settlement, a cemetery and three pottery Ding-tripods (鼎) with food-crust remains.

Food from ancient, and not-so-ancient, times, has seen cuisine from across China appear on tables at home and abroad to this ...