Hugua is cucumber.

Northern Wei Jia Si-feng "Qi Min Yao Shu - planting melon": "planting Yue melon Hu melon method: planted in April. Hu melon should be erected wood, so that the trailing edge of the edge." Ming Li Shizhen "Compendium of Materia Medica - vegetable three - Hu melon": "Zhang Qian to the Western Regions to get species, so the name Hu melon. According to Du _ "Gleaner _" cloud: Sui Daye four years to avoid taboo, changed Hu melon for cucumber."

Ming Li Shizhen "Compendium of Materia Medica - vegetable three - Hu melon" _ interpretation of the name _ cited Chen Zangqi said: "North people to avoid Shile Tuo, changed to call cucumber." See also " cucumber."

Zhang Qian is "Hu" crop family of important ministers, there are many members of his in the Han Wu Di period, take the land Silk Road mission to the Western Regions to bring back to China, such as hu celery, hu melon, hu beans, hu ma, hu garlic, hu coriander, hu peaches and so on.