Why is cucumber called cucumber and why is cucumber called cucumber?

The original name of the melon was Hu Gua, which was brought back by Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty when he went to the Western Regions. The name of the courgette was changed to cucumber, which began in Later Zhao. Shi Le, the founder of the Later Zhao Dynasty, was originally a member of the Qiang tribe who entered the Sai.

After he ascended the throne as emperor in Xiangguo (present-day Xingtai, Hebei), he was annoyed by the people of his country who called the Hu people. Shile formulated a decree: no matter what he said or wrote, it was strictly forbidden to use the word "hu", and violators would be beheaded for pardon.

One day, Shi Le summoned local ** in Shan Yuting, and when he saw Fan Tan, the commander of Xiangguo County, coming to see him wearing patched and tattered clothes, he was very dissatisfied. He split his head and asked, "Fan Tan, why did you come to the court when you were not dressed properly?"

Fan Tan didn't know what to do in a panic, and replied casually: "It's all because the Hu people have no morality, and they looted all their clothes, so I had to come to the court in rags." As soon as he had finished speaking, he realized that he had broken the ban, and hurriedly prostrated himself and pleaded guilty. When Shile saw that he was convicted, he stopped accusing him.

When the routine "Imperial Lunch" was held after the summons, Shi Le pointed to a plate of courgettes and asked Fan Tan: "Do you know what the name of this thing is?" Fan Tan saw that Shi Le was deliberately questioning him, so he said respectfully

Purple case delicacies, silver cups of green tea, golden bottle nectar, jade plate cucumbers. When Schleer heard this, he smiled with satisfaction. Since then, courgettes have been called cucumbers, and they have spread among the government and the opposition.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty, cucumbers had become a common vegetable in the north and south. Nowadays, there are many types of cucumbers, which are roughly divided into spring cucumbers, rack cucumbers and dry cucumbers. The varieties that are well-known throughout the country are the Beijing thorn gourd and the Ningyang thorn gourd that are beautiful in appearance, thin in skin and thick in flesh, and small in flesh.

Because its mother named it Cucumber.

When cucumber was first introduced, it was called courgette, and later changed its name to cucumber because Hu Shile ascended the throne as emperor, taboo the word "Hu". Truly ripe cucumbers have yellow skin and yellow seeds, so they are called cucumbers. <

When cucumber was first introduced, it was called courgette, and later changed its name to cucumber because Hu Shile ascended the throne as emperor, taboo the word "Hu". Truly ripe cucumbers have yellow skin and yellow seeds, so they are called cucumbers. However, this kind of cucumber has a poor taste, and people find that cucumbers are more crisp and delicious when eaten raw during the cultivation process, so they are picked and eaten when they are not ripe.

Over time, people thought that green cucumbers were ripe cucumbers.

Cucumbers are called cucumbers because the ancients originally called cucumbers courgettes, but Shile, the founder of the Zhao Kingdom, forbade the people to use Hu characters in speaking and writing, and courgettes are yellow when they are ripe, so people changed courgettes to cucumbers. Cucumbers are lianas that prefer warm and humid environments, but they are not cold-tolerant and die when the temperature is below freezing.

The reason why cucumbers are called cucumbers is because cucumbers were originally called courgettes, which were introduced into our country during the Han Dynasty, but because Shile, the founder of the Zhao Kingdom, forbade people to say Hu characters, and the flesh and peel of courgettes are yellow when they are ripe, so people call courgettes cucumbers.

Cucumber is an annual vine of the Cucurbitaceae family, the vine is long, prismatic, covered with white bristles, and the leaves of cucumber are broadly ovate, the leaf color is green, and the fruit grows and matures in the summer of each year, showing an oval or cylindrical shape, with protrusions on the surface.

Cucumber likes a warm environment, the most suitable temperature for growth is between 10-32 degrees, cold-tolerant insertion, the temperature is below zero degrees will die, and cucumber is a sunshine-neutral plant, can receive 9 hours of short sunshine a day, and the water demand is large, suitable for growing in the environment with 60% soil water content.

Cucumber is called cucumber, because cucumber is green when it is not ripe, and it becomes yellow when it is fully ripe, it is an annual climbing herb of the Cucurbitaceae family, which will flower and bear fruit in the summer of each year.

Cucumbers were first brought back by Zhang Qian from the Western Regions, and the locals of the Western Han Dynasty at that time were accustomed to calling people outside the realm Hu Ren, and the melons that came from other places were naturally called Hu melons.

In the Later Zhao period, Hu Shi Le laid down the country and ascended the throne as the emperor, so he naturally did not want the people to continue to discriminate against the Hu people, and the word "Hu" was not allowed to appear no matter how much he spoke or wrote, otherwise he would be killed if he committed a big taboo, and at that time, people were eating ripe old cucumbers, so they named it after ripe yellow.

Later, people found that the original unripe green cucumber was more crisp and delicious, until now we eat unripe green cucumber, so few people see the ripe yellow cucumber again, so there is a question of why it is not called green melon.

Nowadays, we all eat green cucumbers, so the areas introduced from the south are often called cucumbers, and new varieties are introduced and improved according to cucumbers, but the essence is what we often call cucumbers. The introduction of cucumbers is still very early, so the name is more deeply entrenched, and everyone accepts it by default.

Cucumbers are yellow when ripe, and the seeds inside are also yellow, and in the early days, people ate ripe cucumbers, and because of their color, they named them cucumbers.

Later, people found that the skin of ripe cucumbers is relatively thick and the taste is not good, while the unripe green cucumbers have a crisp taste and are more edible.

Cucumber has a long history, the original name was courgette, according to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhao, Yan, Qin and other countries bordering Hudi, when expanding their territory, introduced from Hudi. During the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen wrote the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and was still accustomed to writing cucumbers as courgettes.

Courgette was renamed cucumber from the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was suspicious by nature, and beware of Hu people for the reputation, and the more sensitive Hu bed was called Jiao Bed, because of the color of the vegetable, so the courgette was renamed cucumber.

The purchase and identification skills of yellow coarse base melon

1. Look at the florets of cucumbers: When the normal cucumbers reach edible, the florets are already close to withering and withering, and it is generally impossible not to see the flowers when they are sold; If you can see the small flowers, then it is the cucumber that has used hormones, if you want the small flowers not to wither, it must be the result of artificial intervention, when the cucumber is still a flower bone, first soak it with plant hormones.

2. Look at the head of the cucumber: as a melon and fruit vegetable, the head of the normal cucumber has no knots at all, and completely presents a pointed dome-shaped, more like the head of a rocket; The hormone cucumber has a raised knot.

3. Look at the small thorns of cucumbers: the thorns on the normal cucumber are thick and short, and even the thorns are gone, leaving only a small yellow dot, pinch it, there will be no obvious stinging feeling; Hormone cucumber, there will be a lot of small thorns on the body, not only will it be more dense, but also relatively sharper and thinner, pinching, there will be a clear prickly feeling.

4. Look at the tail of the cucumber: the longer the normal cucumber grows, the shorter the part of the tail without thorns, and it is thicker, shorter, straighter and smoother; The hormone cucumber tail has no thorns, is longer, thinner, more curved, and more unsmooth rocky and unpolished.