There is a legend about why people eat popcorns on Heads-raising Day. It is said that the Jade Emperor was unhappy that China had a female emperor Wu Zetian in Tang Dynasty. He ordered the dragon kings to stop raining for three years to punish China. Couldn’t bear to see people starve to death, the dragon king in charge of the heaven river made a secret rainfall. Knowing this, the Jade Emperor expelled him from the heavenly palace and locked him under a mountain with a stele read “The dragon king violated the law of heaven. Unless golden beans bloom, he couldn’t be free’.
To save the dragon king, people searched for gold beans everywhere. The next year, on the second day of the second lunar month, when people were drying the corn seeds in the sun, they found the corn seeds look like gold beans. They heated them and made popcorns to let the golden beans “bloom”. Knowing the people’s efforts, the dragon king raised its head and called to the Jade Emperor to see the golden beans bloom. At last, the dragon king was set free and allowed back to the heavenly palace and resume its charge of wind and rain. To pay tribute to the dragon king, there has been the folk custom of making popcorns (or fried soy beans in some places) on this day.
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