No difference between the nest and pumpkin, the nest is a pumpkin alias. Pumpkin cucurbitaceae pumpkin genus of a species, annual trailing herbs, stems often nodes rooted, petiole stout, leaf blade broadly ovate or ovoid, slightly soft, veins elevated, tendrils slightly stout, monoecious, fruiting pedicels stout, ribbed and grooved, depending on the species, often with a few longitudinal grooves outside or no, most of the seeds, long ovate or oblong. Pumpkin fruit for food, can also be used as food, the whole plant ministries and for medicinal purposes.

History of Cultivation

Pumpkin was introduced into China through several routes, but Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang were the earliest. Chinese people initially mistakenly thought that pumpkin from Japan, so it is called "Japanese melon", because Japan is in the east of China, so also known as pumpkin for the "East melon", in addition there is a further misunderstanding for the production of the Korean Peninsula, the name is "Goryeo gourd ", and the Japanese thought the pumpkin from China, so call it "Tang eggplant" (at that time, the Japanese will be generalized Chinese products known as Tang things). To the mid to late Qing Dynasty, China's southern pumpkin along the Grand Canal to the north, especially Shandong, became the northern pumpkin planting town, people began to realize that this melon should come from the south, "pumpkin" began to popular.

Folk customs

China's Jiangnan District, every spring family to eat pumpkin, in order to welcome the spring. Some literati in the ripening of the small "peach pumpkin" skin engraved with poems or patterns, with the ripening of the melon, the melon skin will be left on the beautiful drawings and poems, put it on the desk, can add interest to life. In many Western countries, October 31 every year on Halloween (Halloween), people with pumpkins carved into a beautiful pumpkin lanterns, with which to get rid of evil spirits, celebrate the holiday.

Folklore

The story of the pumpkin as a lantern originated in ancient Ireland. The story goes that a man named Jack was a drunkard and a prankster. One day Jack tricked the devil up a tree, then carved a cross on the stump to terrorize the devil so that he would not dare to come down, and then Jack and the devil and the devil, so that the devil promised to cast a spell so that Jack would never commit a crime as a condition for him to come down from the tree. after Jack died, but his soul can not go to heaven nor to hell, so his spirit had to rely on a small candle to guide him between heaven and earth. In the old Irish legend, this small candle is in a hollowed out turnip put, called "JACKLANTERN", and the old turnip lamp evolved to today, is a pumpkin made Jack-O-Lantern.