Melons in the "road goods", non-indigenous specialties, I have seen in northern and northeastern China, north and south of the same name, commonly known as burnt melon.

The grassroots identity of the burnt melon, determines that it is different from the new favorite melon. I miss the burnt melon, should come from my childhood memories. Earlier, in the farm garden, in the middle of summer, it is the peak season of the burnt melon to compete for supremacy, in the pepper bush, in the stalk of the cabbage, green skin, gray skin, blue and white skin of the grass roots of the burnt melon lying in which any pick a, split to pull out the flesh, sprinkled on the wall, to be the next year to take down the seeds of the melon air-dried, planted to the ground and is a season of prosperity. Later burnt melon was eliminated, slowly out of the farm garden, probably because of the increasing variety of melons, in most people's "fine sense", burnt melon second best, only to become today's "vegetable melon".