Cucumber is known as HuGua, brought to the Central Plains by Zhang Qian from the Western region of the Western Han Dynasty, and thus named.

When Emperor Shi Le of the Later Zhao Dynasty was jealous of the word "Hu" during the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms period, Fan Tan, a minister of the Han Dynasty, changed it to "cucumber". The origin of cucumber is India, later introduced into Central Asia. During the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian traveled to the West, and brought back a kind of melon with a length of several inches, a yellowish-green color, and many thorns, which was called "Hu melon". Later, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the name was changed to cucumber, and it was widely planted in the north and south of the Yangtze River.

Cucumber habits:

Cucumber in the melon belongs to the shallow-rooted plants, the main root group is distributed in the 20 centimeters or so of the cultivated soil, and the structure of the loose, weak tissue, the cucumber belongs to the sun type of plant, it is more like sunlight, every day to ensure that the 8 hours of light -10 hours of light, if there is insufficient light will affect the growth of cucumber fruit. Cucumber fruit growth, serious only will grow vine leaves, fruit growth stop, the consequences are more serious.