1, many children and grandchildren, long fortune: Pumpkin has many seeds, and the vines are very long, always intertwined, so it has the meaning of many children and grandchildren and prosperity.
2, happiness in life: pumpkin meat has the characteristics of simplicity and sweetness, so it has the meaning of love and happiness.
3. Abundance: The skin of pumpkin is yellow and looks auspicious, so it has a symbol of harvest, which means abundance.
Historical origin
Pumpkin originated in South America and has been cultivated for 9,000 years. Columbus brought it back to Europe, and was introduced to Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and other places by Portugal. It began to enter China in the Ming Dynasty.
There were many paths for pumpkin to be introduced into China, but Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang were the earliest. At the beginning, China people mistakenly thought that pumpkin came from Japan, so it was named "Japanese pumpkin". Because Japan is in the east of China, it is also called "East pumpkin".
In addition, there is a further misunderstanding that it is produced in the Korean peninsula and is called "Korean melon". More interestingly, the Japanese thought that pumpkin came from China, so they called it "Tang Eggplant" (at that time, the Japanese generally referred to China products as Tang objects).