Cucumbers must be very common in everyone's life. In the past, cucumbers were good snacks in the countryside in summer. They were easy to eat, manage to be full, and produce saliva and quench thirst. So why should cucumbers, which are clearly green, be called cucumbers instead of green cucumbers? Here is the reason why the cucumber I sorted is called cucumber.
Cucumber is really yellow when it is ripe
The cucumbers we usually eat are usually green. Crispy and delicious, tender and sweet cucumbers have even attracted the great poet Lu You's Poetry: "cucumbers and chicory are the most suitable. When they are listed in April". Green cucumbers are often eaten. Have you ever eaten yellow, orange cucumbers? In fact, people also like to call cucumber "cucumber", which is relative to its mature color.
The mature cucumber does not turn green and turns yellow, which is called "old cucumber" by the people. The old cucumber is painted with green paint to make it tender; Drinking old cucumber seeds is a folk cure. In Guangdong, there is a beautiful soup - old cucumber lean meat soup... That's right! Mature cucumbers are no longer green, but real yellow. Knowing this reason, do you still think the name of cucumber is "green melon"?
Cucumbers were originally called cucumbers
Cucumber is not originally produced in the Central Plains. In the spring and Autumn period, Hu Rong and Hu Yan had two kinds of territory. Hu Rong and Hu Yan had two kinds of territory. Second, it was introduced from the Huns to the Central Plains when Wei Qing, the great general of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, recovered the Hetao area.
When Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty wrote compendium of Materia Medica, he was also used to calling cucumbers cucumbers cucumbers. It is said that "one melon, broken, boiled half to rotten with vinegar, taken on an empty stomach and eaten at one time" can solve the symptoms such as swelling of limbs.
Why is cucumber renamed cucumbers
It is native to Hu Di, so cucumber was originally called Hu Gua. When did you change your name? According to the records of Zhenguan dignitaries, in the fourth year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty said when analyzing the reasons for the demise of the Sui Dynasty: "emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was suspicious and believed in evil theories. In order to be wary of the Hu people, he was so sensitive that he called the Hu bed the delivery bed and the Hu melon the cucumber."
"In the four years, Hu bed was changed to cross bed, Hu melon was changed to White Dew yellow, and eggplant was changed to Kunlun purple," said Du Bao of the Tang Dynasty, who recorded the anecdotes of emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty The pronunciation of "苽" here is "g" ū”， The original meaning refers to the aquatic edible plant "Zizania latifolia". The word "Gua" is often discarded after it, and people are more used to the word "Gua".