Popcorn originated in the Song Dynasty in China. Fan Chengda, a poet, mentioned the custom of exploding grain in Wuzhong on the Shangyuan Festival in his Collection of Shihu, and explained: "The fried glutinous rice is Ibrahimovic, and the grain is Bulou, and the northerners call it glutinous rice flower." Why is popcorn called Bulou? Popcorn should imitate the sound of popcorn, because the local dialect calls the sound of thunder "grinding" Zhao Yi, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, recorded a poem "Blasting Buildings" in his Miscellanies of Exposing the eaves: "When you enter Dongwu Gate, 100,000 families break the valley and spend their youth. Put the golden millet in the pot and turn it into Bai Yuhua. Pink lady is a happy event, and the old man asks about his career. Xiao Lai decorated his son, and several pieces of plum blossoms were inserted into his temples. " The popcorn written by the poet is not only beautiful in writing, but also full of life interest. Fan Chengda recorded in "The Custom of Wu Jun": "Shang Yuan, ... fried glutinous rice in a pot, named Bolou, also known as Mihua. Everyone blew themselves up to rest for a year. " On the occasion of the Spring Festival, Song people used popcorn to predict the good or bad of the year, and girls used it to ask their lifelong events. Song people added diet to culture, which enriched its connotation. Popcorn is crisp and easy to digest, and can be used as a delicious snack every day. The invention of popcorn embodies the richness of China's diet, and has a deeper meaning, that is, it creates a food processing method-puffed food. It shows that the food processing in ancient China is not only a simple heating cooking, but also uses the physical principle of high temperature and high pressure to change the state and taste of food. This processing method is a modern emerging puffed food. This processing method has turned ordinary food that we don't agree with each other into delicious and distinctive food snacks. It can be said that popcorn thousands of years ago is the originator of modern puffed food snacks. Popcorn has a brand name, which only existed a few years ago. In 2002, a food called "Don't miss popcorn" became popular among the public. After tasting this kind of popcorn, people feel very different from the previous corn covered flower, which is a popular leisure snack in Xian Yi. Leisure means eating and playing.
No one can say for sure which dynasty the Baogu flower originated from and how long it was in which generation. In a word, this snack has a long history and is deeply rooted in people's hearts, but it originated in the countryside, but there is no doubt.
It is said that before the appearance of popcorn, villagers went up the mountain to open up wasteland and brought rice flowers as dry food. The so-called popcorn is to stir-fry rice in oil and sand, so that the rice grains expand and become soft cooked food. Villagers sometimes go out for a few days when they go up the mountain to open up wasteland, so they put rice and flowers in cloth bags and take them up the mountain. When they are hungry, they can eat rice and flowers on the mountain spring to satisfy their hunger. Later, the villagers fried popcorn with oil sands and thought it was more delicious than popcorn. One is fragrant, and the other is hungry. As a result, popcorn replaced the fragrance of rice flowers and became popular in the vast rural areas. On holidays, weddings, funerals and leisure time, Baogu Huadu is the best snack to entertain guests or eat. In winter leisure time, when a family, three friends or four friends gather together to bake firewood or charcoal fire, they often put a few grains of corn into charcoal ash. Soon, there was prosperity here and there. The corn turned into a big popcorn, and everyone scrambled to eat it and laughed and laughed. Homesickness is strong and the house is warm.
Later, it should be said that the time was not too long, and popcorn machines appeared in society. Some people start their own businesses by this, from rural areas to towns and finally into cities. Soybean, pea, rice and corn, this popcorn machine can produce popcorn. There are still many people who make a living from this, and the customers are mainly children. The production of popcorn has always been a single scattered random behavior. It has been standardized and factory-produced, thanks to the "Zunnuo 1 high-quality and high-yield" variety popularized and selected by Zunyi Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the rural areas of northern Guizhou in the middle and late 1990s. That is to say, with more farmers planting this kind of corn, the output of waxy corn will naturally increase, which provides sufficient raw materials for food processing. "Don't lose your popcorn" entered the market under this background.
The raw materials and production technology of popcorn are very particular. The raw material is "Zunnuo 1", which belongs to waxy corn. Tested by the Ministry of Agriculture, the lysine content of this kind of corn is as high as 0.48%, and the protein content is 1 1.38%, and it has good quality, good flavor and good viscosity.