There was popcorn in the Song Dynasty. What did the ancients do with it?

In fact, popcorn appeared as early as the Song Dynasty, but the Song people did not choose to eat popcorn, but used it for divination. The ancients also called it Bulou. Ancient people will choose to use the sound of explosion to infer time, and they will also choose to use it to predict their lifelong events. In modern times, popcorn is a very delicious snack, and many people choose to hold a bucket of popcorn when watching movies. The method of making this food is very simple. Just fry the corn in the pot until it explodes. The sender will choose popcorn to pray for the next year's harvest and personal destiny. Popcorn also needs ingredients such as sugar and ghee. You can choose to add some other condiments such as chocolate, which tastes sweet and crisp.

Popcorn is also an ancient snack, which appeared in America thousands of years ago. Indians also left some popcorn in their caves, and archaeologists also found this food during their research. Thousands of years ago, the production technology of popcorn was relatively backward, so the taste of popcorn was not particularly crisp. But it was still very popular at that time, and many families would choose to cook this kind of food to eat.

Some people also choose to wear prepared popcorn in strings and sell it on the street. After the Song Dynasty, local people chose to use popcorn for divination, and scholars in the Qing Dynasty also described popcorn. Ancient popcorn is also very different from modern popcorn. In the 1980s and 1990s, popcorn also needed machines.

In many people's childhood memories, the shape of the machine is like an iron gourd, and with the development of society, the process of making popcorn is becoming more and more simple and convenient, and many people choose to make popcorn at home. Popcorn in the Song Dynasty was probably made of glutinous rice, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that glutinous rice was turned into corn.