1, in fact, as early as four thousand years ago, the Egyptians planted watermelon, Egyptians are very much in love with this kind of juicy and sweet melons, and even painted it on the wall of the Pharaoh's tomb, and then gradually moved north, initially by the Mediterranean coast to northern Europe, and then south into the Middle East, India, etc., the fourth and fifth centuries, due to the introduction of the Western region from the Han Dynasty, the Fifth Generation, before the watermelon had already been imported into the Chinese Southeast coastal areas, but not called watermelon, but because of its cold nature to relieve heat, called cold melon.

2, the name of the red pigment of the watermelon, but originated from a fruit + vegetables and it can not hit the pole: tomato. Yes, the red color of watermelon, from the lycopene contained in the cells, also known as lycopene. And, watermelon is even "more blue than blue", the lycopene content in watermelon is 2-4 times higher than that in fresh tomatoes. Therefore, the watermelon flesh is red.

3, watermelon is not a specialty of our country, but also not from China, according to the Ming Dynasty scientist Xu Guangqi, "Agricultural Politics Book" records: "watermelon, planted in the West, so the name watermelon." Ming Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded that "according to Hu Jiao in Huihe to get melon seeds, called watermelon. The watermelon since the Five Dynasties when it began to enter China, now both north and south," which indicates that the cultivation of watermelon in China has a long history.