Most Fuling locals consume Fuling squash, and also consume squash brands such as Lubiju and Yuquan.

In 2017, the market share*** of five enterprises, namely Fuling squash, Fish Spring squash, Beijing Liubiju, Gao Fuji undercooked food, and Sichuan Ajute, amounted to nearly 70%, resulting in a high degree of market concentration.

Fuling squash history

190 million years BC in the Jurassic period, the Earth is still in childhood, a seed later called "mustard" appeared. It was left behind, like dust, scattered with the wind, rooted and sprouted. To this day, there is no scientific evidence to confirm when or where this plant began.

The Book of Songs first recorded it, calling it "turnip". In the Thousand Character Classic, it is said, "Vegetables are more important than mustard and ginger," meaning "the most important of vegetables are mustard and ginger". Mustard is like an elf that keeps changing, and in the purple soil of Fuling, it becomes "stem tumor mustard".

Fuling is the former capital of the country of Cuba, and the mausoleum of the late king of the country of Ba is on the side of the Wu River in Baitao Town, Fuling. The Ba people were good at making pottery, and the boat they rode up the river was made of earthenware.

They fished and hunted, planted millet, inadvertently, the remaining meat into the salt pots, stored for some time, found that not only did not rot, but also eat the delicious. So, the ancient Ba people gradually learned to use salt meat pickles, Fuling also became the birthplace of salt meat and vegetables.

In the Fuling countryside, almost every family has a "pickle house", the owner of the guests, the last dish is pickles. Fuling folk to this day continues to be a dish of pickles to check the home operation, see the housewife hard-working and virtuous customs, and "good-looking but vegetarian dress, delicious but pickles rice" proverb.