Total Chapter 102 Popcorn
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In the face of the ordinary people who entered the ancestral hall, the stragglers had no interest in robbing. The common people used the ancestral hall to escape a catastrophe.
Not only can it dispel the desire of those stragglers to attack, but sometimes it can also play a role in dealing with those small bandits that are flowing.
After all, the people of the other families hated the small bandits that flowed around. Therefore, as long as the ancestral hall resists the first attack of those small bandits who are on the move, there will naturally be martial arts masters from other families to come to the rescue, so they will soon be able to turn the danger into a disaster.
Therefore, for the people who have entered the ancestral hall, those small bandits and stragglers are completely identical, they all avoid them and run away directly.
In the ancestral hall in ancient China, there were so many benefits, so it can't be blamed that people in ancient times didn't have anything to do, and they worked hard and lost money, right?
The place where Xiao Dong Yong's dowry ceremony was held - the ancestral hall of the Zhang family where the little girl Zhang Na was located. It is also a very solid building, and the gate of the ancestral hall of the Zhang family ancestral hall is made of thick wooden boards.
Entering from the gate of the Zhang family ancestral hall, the front is the altar of the Zhang family ancestral hall.
On the altar of the ancestral hall of the Zhang family, there are densely placed the sacred cards of the ancestors of the Zhang family.
On the top of the ancestral card of the Zhang family, the front is the name of the ancestor of the Zhang family, and on the back of the ancestor of the Zhang family, it is varied, and some of the ancestors of the Zhang family have birthdays and death days (that is, the day of death), and some even write the burial place on it (it is convenient for descendants to burn paper and incense during the Qingming Festival, so that the ancestors of the Zhang family also have some money to spend?).
Xiao Dong Yong's dowry etiquette is actually relatively simple.
First of all, the family of the little girl Zhang Na burned paper and incense on the altar of the ancestral hall of the Zhang family. This is telling
Then, the little Dong Yong was held by his father Dong Yong, and the little girl Zhang Na was also held by her father Zhang Fan, and they bowed together to the altar of the ancestral hall of the Zhang family. This, of course, is a salute to the ancestors of the Zhang family on the altar of the ancestral hall of the Zhang family.
Xiao Dong Yong's stepfather and stepmother Li Zhiyong and Li Zhiyong's wife Li Zhang also stood next to Dong Yong's father and director, and also bowed to the altar of the Zhang family ancestral hall.
Next, Dong Yong's father's director handed over the red paper with the little girl Zhang Na's eight characters to Zhang Fan, the father of the little girl Zhang Na, and the father of the little girl Zhang Na also handed over the red paper with the little girl Zhang Na's eight characters to Dong Yong's father director.
At this time, Xiao Dong Yong's dowry etiquette is coming to an end.
In the little Dong Yong was held by his father Dong Yong, the little girl Zhang Na was also held by his father Zhang Fan, Dong Yong's stepfather and stepmother Li Zhiyong and Li Zhiyong's wife Li Zhang were also standing next to Dong Yong's father director, and they once again bowed together to the altar of the ancestral hall of the Zhang family.
Xiao Dong Yong's dowry etiquette is over.
Xiao Dongyong's first wife was successfully done.
Xiao Dong Yong is amazing, right!?
Such a powerful little Dong Yong can't let his brothers and sisters put the recommendation tickets in their hands?
Xiao Dong Yong's dowry etiquette is over.
Then, people withdrew from the ancestral hall of the Zhang family.
With a sound of "squeak, squeak", the door of the ancestral hall of the Zhang family was closed again.
After eating, Xiao Dong Yong and Dong Yong's father director, as well as Xiao Dong Yong's stepfather and stepmother Li Zhiyong and Li Zhiyong's wife Li Zhang's husband and wife, as well as a few middle-aged strong men who carried the burden, still stayed in the little girl Zhang Na's house.
Although the Zhangjia Lane where the little girl Zhang Na's home is located is actually very close to the Lijia Lane where the home of Xiao Dongyong's stepfather Li Zhiyong is located, Xiao Dongyong and Dong Yong's father and director, as well as Xiao Dongyong's stepfather and stepmother Li Zhiyong and Li Zhiyong's wife Li Zhang's husband and wife, as well as a few middle-aged strong men who carry the burden, still need to stay in the little girl Zhang Na's house for one night.
This is also etiquette.
The next day, after eating, Xiao Dongyong and Dong Yong's father director, as well as Xiao Dongyong's stepfather and stepmother Li Zhiyong and Li Zhiyong's wife Li Zhang, as well as several middle-aged strong men who carried the burden returned to Lijia Lane together.
A few middle-aged strong men who carried the burden looked a lot more relaxed, after all, Dong Yong's father and director bought a dowry for little Dong Yong, and the little girl Zhang Na's family also needed to laugh and accept, and at the same time, they also needed some return gifts.
Generally speaking, the gifts given are mainly raw food, but of course some gold and silver treasures are also sent together. And what about return gifts?
Surely the gold and silver treasures will not be returned.
The return gift is usually some cooked food. Popcorn is a relatively common gift item in ancient times.
There are three types of popcorn, one is corn popping, the second is rice, and the third is millet. Common popcorn is made with corn, popcorn ghee, and sugar put into a popcorn machine. The principle of popcorn is to take an appropriate amount of corn (or rice) and put it into the popcorn pot, and seal the top lid, and then put the popcorn pot on the stove and rotate it continuously to make it evenly heated, and you can burst delicious popcorn. This is because during the heating process, the temperature inside the pot continues to rise, and the pressure of the gas in the pot also increases. When the temperature rises to a certain level, the rice grains will gradually soften, and most of the water in the rice grains will turn into water vapor. Due to the high temperature, the pressure of the water vapor is very high, causing the softened rice grains to swell. But at this time, the pressure inside and outside the rice grains is balanced, so the rice grains will not burst in the pan. When the pressure in the pot rises to 4-5 atmospheres, the top lid of the popping pot is suddenly opened, and the gas in the pot expands rapidly, and the pressure decreases quickly, making the pressure difference between the inside and outside of the rice grains larger, resulting in the high-pressure water vapor in the rice grains also expanding sharply, and the rice grains are burst instantaneously, which becomes popcorn.
Of course, this is not the case with popcorn in ancient times, and the popcorn in ancient times was copied from dry rice in an iron pot, and of course, in addition to dry rice, there were also large pieces of grit after sifting in the iron pot.
In this way, the dry rice after frying will be expanded.
This kind of dry rice after the expansion is called popcorn.
This popcorn also has a name called "goose blossom rice".
However, the more popular popcorn in our country is the baogu flower.
The main reason is that goose blossom rice is relatively small, while baogu flower is relatively large.
No one can tell what dynasty and what dynasty Baoguhua originated in and how long the history is. In short, this snack has been passed down for a long time and has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but it is undoubtedly that it originated in the countryside.
It is said that before the appearance of baoguhua, the villagers went up to the mountains to cultivate the wasteland, and the dry food they brought was rice flowers. The so-called rice flower is to put the rice in the oil sand and fry it constantly, so that the rice grains bulge and become soft, and become cooked food. The villagers go up the mountain to open up the wasteland, sometimes they have to go out for several days, so they put the rice flowers in cloth bags and take them up the mountain, and when they are hungry, they eat the rice flowers in the mountain spring to satisfy their hunger. Later, the villagers used the oil sand fried into the grain flower, feel that it is better than the rice flower, one is fragrant, the other is hungry, so, the rice flower replaces the rice flower, popular in the vast countryside. During the New Year's holidays, weddings and funerals, and nothing to do, Bao Guhua is the best snack for hospitality or self-eating. In the winter leisure time, a family or three friends or four friends, around the firewood or charcoal fire, often a few grains of grain into the firewood ash charcoal ash, or not long, here a bang, there a bang, the grain has become a big grain flower, everyone rushes to eat, hip hip hop and ha, the nostalgia is strong, the house is full of warmth.
Popcorn is a kind of puffed food that has existed since ancient times, hundreds of years ago, the "necklace" gluttonous people long before European immigrants moved into this "new world", and the Indians living in this large popcorn land have been eating popcorn since then. After returning to Europe, Christopher Columbus described the New World as a picture of Native American children selling them on the streets with popcorn necklaces. It was also the Indians who taught the new European settlers how to plant and bake corn. A historian also found popcorn eaten by ancient Indians 5,000 years ago in a cave in New Mexico, USA, but due to the limitations of the "craftsmanship" at the time, it was far less crunchy than contemporary popcorn in terms of taste. Modern inventors have designed an electric pot for families who like to pop corn, and it is said that it takes only 10 minutes to make a large pot of cornflower. At present, many local television stations in the United States often broadcast the common knowledge of how to pop cornflower, and also introduce various new flavors of popcorn popping methods. A self-proclaimed "popcorn king" who frequently appears on TV screens, Rayton Bahar, has become a household name in the United States - as soon as this gentleman came to the stage, he talked about the "corn classic". Popcorn fried jelly beans and popcorn on the seventh day of the seventh month, which means "eat fried beans and live old". That night, people flocked to Chengtou to watch the meeting of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the sky. On this day, people rarely see magpies, saying that they went to heaven to take the magpie bridge. Sometimes there will be a few rains at night, and people say that this is the tears that fall when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet. The 15th day of the seventh month of the midyear festival, commonly known as the "half of the seventh month", also known as the midyear festival, is a festival for the people to worship their ancestors in the old days. Folk cooking "mint cake", "golden rice cracker", burning silver paper clothes, sacrificing ancestors. If a married woman encounters the death of her parents, she will prepare sacrifices and silver paper on the 13th, and return to her mother's house to worship, commonly known as sending "first year paper", and then "sending paper" on the 14th every year. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, this custom gradually fell into obscurity.
Originated from the popcorn of the Song Dynasty in China, the poet Fan Chengda at that time mentioned the customs of popcorn in various parts of Wuzhong during the Shangyuan Festival in his "Shihu Collection" in various popcorn atlases (12 photos), and explained: "Fried glutinous grain to Bu, the name of the valley is Bolou, and the northerner is called glutinous rice." Why do you call popcorn "Po Lou"? Popcorn is supposed to be a replica of the sound of popcorn, because the local dialect calls the sound of thunder "孛辘". Qing Dynasty scholar Zhao Yi recorded a poem "Poems of Exploding Lou" in his "Miscellaneous Records of Eaves Exposure": "100,000 families entered Wumen in the east, and every family burst grain for a long time. Drain the golden millet in the pot and turn it into a white jade flower. The pink beauty accounts for the happy event, and the white-headed old man asks about the career. Xiaolai decorated his sons, and several plum blossoms were inserted into his sideburns. "The poet's popcorn is not only beautifully written, but also full of life. Fan Chengda recorded in "Wu County Chronicles: Customs": "Shangyuan,...... Burst glutinous grain in the kettle, the name is Lou, also called rice flower. Everyone blew themselves up, and they were to be blamed for a year's rest. On the occasion of the New Year, the Song people used popcorn to tell the good fortune of the year, and the girls used it to ask about their lifelong events. The Song people added food to the culture, which gave it a richer connotation. Popcorn is crunchy and easy to digest, making it a delicious daily snack. The invention of popcorn reflects the richness of Chinese food, and it has a deeper meaning, that is, it created a way of food processing. It shows that food processing in ancient China is not only a simple heating of food, but also a physical principle of high temperature and high pressure to change the state and taste of food, which is the emerging Penghua food in modern times. This processing method makes ordinary unpalatable food into delicious and distinctive food snacks, and it can be said that popcorn thousands of years ago is the ancestor of various modern and modern snacks.