Was popcorn popcorn or glutinous rice in Song Dynasty?

Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, once mentioned the custom of exploding grain on the Shangyuan Festival in Wuzhong in Shihu Collection, saying: "Fried glutinous rice is Ibrahimovic, and the grain is called Bolou, and northerners call it glutinous rice flower." "However, the dough is satisfied and the scales are screaming", which is the scene when the wheat grains are fried on the streets of Shangyuan Festival.

Since the Song Dynasty, people in wuyue have had the custom of "divining the rice harvest on the 13th and 14th of the first month": stir-frying glutinous rice flowers indicates a bumper harvest of rice, and the more sparkling popcorn, the better the color, which indicates a bumper harvest of rice this year.

Historical source

After Columbus returned to Europe, he once described to people the vivid scene of Indian children in the "New World" selling popcorn in the street wearing necklaces. It was also the Indians who taught the new immigrants in Europe how to grow and bake corn.

A historian also found popcorn eaten by ancient Indians 5000 years ago in a cave in New Mexico, USA, but because of the "technology" at that time, the taste was far from crisp as that of popcorn of the times.

Modern inventors designed an electric cooker for families who like popcorn. It is said that it only takes 10 minutes to make a large pot of popcorn.

Many local TV stations in the United States often broadcast the common sense of popcorn explosion, and also introduce various methods of popcorn explosion in fresh air. An expert who frequently appears on TV screens and calls himself "the king of popcorn" has become a household name in the United States-this gentleman talks about "corn classics" as soon as he takes office.