Zhangqiu iron pot needs 12 processes, 18 furnace, 1000 degree high temperature tempering and forging 10000 times until the pot looks like a mirror. Technically, it needs to go through cold forging and hot forging 12 processes, and it can be formed after tens of thousands of forging. Functionally meets the needs of catering, cooking and stir-frying in China. Natural uncoated, easy to control temperature, not easy to stick to the pot, fuel-saving, long life and durability.

Zhangqiu is a district of Jinan, in the east of Jinan, which has been famous for smelting iron since ancient times. Previously, in Zhangqiu, most families would strike iron, and the iron pots used by local residents have always been forged by hand without using machines. This technology has been passed down for thousands of years.

For example, the representative of Zhangqiu Iron Pot, Tongshengyong Iron Pot, has a folk song "Forging 36,000 beats, the bottom of the spoon is bright and white", which was dedicated to Jufengde, Huiquanlou and Yanxitang, three traditional famous shops in Shandong cuisine before liberation.

History of Zhangqiu Iron Pot

Zhangqiu's iron smelting tradition began in the Spring and Autumn Period. By the time of the Western Han Dynasty and the Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, there were 48 iron officials in China and 12 in Shandong, among which Zhangqiu had 1 Dongping Mausoleum. In the Tang Dynasty, according to Forty-one Years of Tongzhi in Shandong Province, "Zhangqiu was the most prosperous place for ironware in the Tang Dynasty", blacksmiths also became the most concentrated occupation of Zhangqiu craftsmen. It used to be "one person makes a fire and the whole family strikes while the iron is hot;" From generation to generation, children and grandchildren continue. "

Zhangqiu blacksmith not only works locally, but also travels around Jiaodong, Shangji Luxi, Xialuxi and crosses Kanto. The number of people going out accounts for about three-fifths of the number of blacksmiths, so Zhangqiu blacksmiths are all over the world. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Cao Shengyong, a famous spoon maker in Beijing, came to Jinan and made a living by setting fire to a pot in Zhengjue Temple Street in Jinan. His forging skill is a typical representative of "cooking stove", and the iron pot he made has the reputation of "forging 36 thousand hammers and the bottom of the spoon is bright white"