The previous name of cucumber is not called cucumber, it is called hu melon. Because the cucumber is the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian mission to the West to bring back to the Central Plains, the West in the Han Dynasty was called Hu, so the cucumber imported to the mainland is also called Hu melon. After Zhang Qian introduced the cucumber to the inner regions of China, he began to grow this vegetable on a large scale. So the cucumber spread in China and became one of the essential vegetables in life, which continues to this day.