Lemon essence originally refers to people who talk sour, and later slowly evolved into self-deprecating envy, becoming a neutral word. Lemon essence originally originated in the network, when netizens expressed envy often use sour to describe, and lemon taste is very sour, so lemon on behalf of envy, sour, jealousy and other meanings.

Lemon is an Internet terrier, the original meaning is because the taste of lemon is sour, so the lemon also refers to the talk of sour, and lemon is to talk sour people. In fact, lemon essence is actually a pejorative term, but now it is mostly used to describe self-deprecating envy, which has become a neutral term.

Lemon Lite originally originated on the internet, where some netizens would say when they envied others? I'm sour? and it evolved into the later direct use of ? Eat lemon? to express the sense of envy. Sometimes, when you see someone's romantic love story, you can also derive the word "lemonade" from it. Sweet and sour lemon essence? It means that you are very envious but also very touched.

Lemon essence can be used in many occasions, and can also be used with emoticons, in addition to expressing their feelings of envy, but also can be used to express other people's naked jealousy. 2019 lemon essence was selected as the top ten network words of the year, which actually proves that most young people like the word lemon essence.