Bagua refers to Linhuan Bagua: a kind of melon, which is produced exclusively in Linhuan Town, Suixi County, Huaibei City, Anhui Province. It belongs to Linhuan specialty pickles and is a traditional famous dish with a history of more than 1 years. Before curing, it is inedible because of its bitter taste, and it is usually harvested in May-July every year.

Bagua is a specialty of Linhuan Town, a famous ancient town. Because the products after sauce are delicious, fresh and sweet, it is a local delicacy and a local specialty of sauce, and the products are even sold to Southeast Asian countries. The prestigious Linhuan sauce-cultured melon is a traditional dish with a history of more than 1 years. Linhuan baogua is a kind of pickles made by Nanjing Pan Xiaowu and his son who came to Linhuanji to open the "Yuanchangzhai" sauce garden shop in the early years of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. It is famous for its unique flavor such as fragrance, crispness, tenderness and rich sauce flavor. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a poet wrote a poem praising the sun: "Melon wind sends fragrance, bees and butterflies fly in clouds, and after eating melons, they forget their hometown people."

Linhuan Bagua is made from excellent Bagua (formerly known as Daughter Melon). The bagged melons should be sown in spring, picked and enlivened at the end of June and the beginning of July, and 1-1.5 Jin of plump, smooth, moderately aged and tender fresh melons should be screened, and processed with picking, so as to keep the freshness and crispness of the melons. When making, the fresh melon is covered, the pulp is removed, the fresh melon is marinated in a vat for the first time, exposed to the sun for more than 3 days, then covered with a layer of sweet sauce, and cultivated for 4 days to make amber melon shells for later use. Then, more than 1 kinds of high-quality pickles ingredients, such as almond sauce, peanut sauce, cucumber sauce, orchid sauce, moss sauce, ginger sauce, melon sauce, salted beans, cauliflower, dried tangerine peel, are chopped and blended, and put into a mature melon shell with sauce, and covered with melon. The finished product is bright in color, crisp and fragrant, refreshing in population, moderate in saltiness and sweetness, and rich in sauce flavor, which is suitable for both north and south.