There was popcorn in the Song Dynasty, what did the ancients used to use it for?

In fact, popcorn has appeared in the Song Dynasty, but people in the Song Dynasty did not choose to consume popcorn, but to use popcorn for divination, and the ancients also called popcorn Marco Polo. Ancient people would choose to use the sound of the explosion to deduce the time, but also choose to use it to divine their own life events. In modern times popcorn is a very tasty snack, and many crowds will also choose to hold a bucket of popcorn while watching a movie. The preparation of this food is very simple, all that is needed is to put the corn in a pot and fry it until it explodes, and the people who give it away will choose to use the popcorn to pray for the coming year's harvest as well as their own personal destiny. Popcorn also requires ingredients such as sugar and ghee. One can choose to put in some other condiments such as chocolate for a very sweet and crunchy taste.

And popcorn is also an ancient snack, having appeared in the Americas millennia ago. Indians also left some popcorn in their caves, and archaeologists have found the food during their research. Thousands of years ago, popcorn in the production process is relatively backward, so the texture of the popcorn is not particularly crunchy. But it was still very popular at the time, and many families would choose to make this food to eat.

There is also a part of the crowd will choose to do a good job of popcorn threaded into strings, sold on the street, continued into the Song Dynasty, the local people chose to use popcorn to divination, the Qing Dynasty scholars have also described the popcorn. Ancient popcorn is also very different from modern times, and in the 1980s and 1990s, popcorn also required the use of a machine.

In many people's childhood memories, the machine was shaped like an iron gourd, and with the development of society, the process of making popcorn has become easier and more convenient, and many people choose to make their own popcorn at home. Popcorn in the Song Dynasty was probably made from glutinous rice, and only after the Ming Dynasty did the glutinous rice become corn.