Gourd pork, also known as sweet and sour pork or sweet and sour pork, is a traditional Han Chinese dish in Guangdong. It is a Cantonese cuisine and is cooked with sweet and sour sauce and pork. This dish is one of the Chinese dishes most familiar to Europeans and Americans, so it is widely seen in restaurants in Chinatowns outside China.

The origin of the dishes is as follows:

There are two legends about the name of sweet and sour pork. The first legend is that this dish is cooked with sweet and sour sauce, and the aroma is so fragrant when it is served that it makes people swallow their mouths, hence the name. The second legend refers to the fact that this dish has a long history, so it was called "ancient meat", and later the homophony was transformed into "sweet and sour meat".