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Making popcorn on the Rain Water Festival?
07 Apr,2022
Qingming Festival, also known as the Spring Outing Festival, the Purification Festival, the Third-Month Festival, or the Ancestral Worship Festival, falls at the transition between mid-spring and late spring. As an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, Qingming is both a solemn occasion for tomb-sweeping and ancestral veneration, and a joyous time for people to connect with nature, enjoy spring outings, and savor the delights of the season.
Qingming Festival is the most solemn and grand ancestral worship festival of the Chinese nation, embodying a cultural tradition of honoring ancestors and reverently remembering those who have passed. It encapsulates the national spirit, carries forward the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people’s moral sentiments of respecting ancestors, honoring the family lineage, carrying on their aspirations, and commemorating their achievements. However, due to the ongoing pandemic, many people are currently unable to return to their hometowns to pay their respects to their ancestors.
During the Song Dynasty, a custom known as “popping rice” emerged in the Jiangnan region around the time of the Rain Water solar term; it served both as a New Year’s pastime and as an expression of hope for a bountiful harvest in the coming year.
What is “burst grain”? In fact, we are quite familiar with its close relative—popcorn. Although the corn used to make today’s popcorn was not introduced to China until the late Ming dynasty, ancient Chinese people had long since discovered that if grains were stir-fried in their husks under high heat, the pressure generated by the intense temperature would cause the starch and steam to burst outward through the husk, producing a type of grain that is puffed up, crisp, and naturally sweet—what we call “burst grain.”
The tradition of popping rice in the rainwater season has a history of at least eight hundred years. As recorded in Lou Yuanli’s “Five Elements of the Farmhouse” from the Yuan dynasty: “On the Rainwater Festival, one heats a dry wok and pops glutinous rice in it, calling the resulting puffed grains ‘bolo flowers,’ to divine the color of the coming rice crop.”
Popcorn made with glutinous rice is now rare, but popcorn made with corn and butter is readily available. Marswell has launched a three-in-one popcorn that you can make at home. It’s simple and convenient to operate, allowing us to enjoy something sweet even during the holidays.
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