How much do you know about watermelon?

Watermelon is "King of Summer"

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Watermelon is "King of Summer"

Watermelon can be seen everywhere in the supermarket and fruit stalls everywhere

I can't help but buy a few

How did watermelon come from?

Does the ancients eat watermelon in summer?

Watermelon is a plant of the gourd family. It likes a warm and dry climate, is not cold -tolerant, the flesh is sweet and juicy, and the peel is smooth.

According to the general point of view of the researcher, watermelon was native to Africa and was introduced to China through the Western Regions. The original watermelon should be white, and the taste is still bitter.

Xu Guangqi, a scientist of the Ming Dynasty, said: "Watermelon, the Western Regions, the name of the Western Regions."

However, there is still controversy in the specific time of watermelon in China. One view is considered to be introduced in the Five Dynasties.

Yaosheng Li Shizhen recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "According to Hu Yan, it is known as watermelon. Then watermelon has begun to enter China from the fifth generation;

In the Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu's "New Five Generations of History · Siyi Appendix", there are similar records: the Five Dynasties Tongzhou Puyang County Ling Hu Yan entered Khitan "to eat watermelon". For example, Chinese winter melon is sweet "," Three years of Zhou Guangshun (953) ... Returning ".

There is also a view that when the Han Dynasty, the Chinese had already eaten watermelon.

The 19th record of the "Puyang Miscellaneous" Volume 19 records the "Xingyuan" poem cloud: "The cold melon is lying, the autumn is full. It's all different. "Some people speculate that the cold melon mentioned in the poem is watermelon.

Moreover, this speculation also has archeological evidence.

In 1976, watermelon seeds were found in the mud in the mud in the west of the Xihan Tomb of Guixian, Guangxi; in 1980, there was watermelon seeds in the lacquer in Han Tomb, Xijiang County, Western Subway, Yangzhou Province, Jiangsu Province. 71 years ago).

Eating melon was originally a patent for rich people.

According to research, on the tomb murals of the Liao Dynasty in Inner Mongolia, you can see the "eating melon". This tomb was built in the six or seven years of Liao Shengzong Yelu Longxu, nearly 1,000 years apart.

Since then, the emperors of the Chinese dynasties have opened the beautiful life of "eating melon" in the summer.

However, it was not until the Song Dynasty that the planting of watermelon really became popular.

The poet Su Dongpo likes to eat watermelon very much. He wrote a couplet to express his happy mood: "Sitting in the south to the north to eat watermelon, and the skin is dumped to the east;

The national hero Wen Tianxiang also wrote "Watermelon Yin", which is very vivid in the description of the melon eating scene: "Pull out the golden knife, break the jasper bottle. Thousands of red cherries, a group of yellow crystals. It sounds like ice and snow. Changan Qingfu said that Shao Ping was scrambling like the Han Dynasty. "

By the Ming Dynasty, Daxing Pangzhuang watermelon had been famous for the world. According to reports, Emperor Jiajing loved to eat Daxing's watermelon, and for this reason, he specially opened up a "royal" garden.

Whenever the melon is cooked, they sent close to the eunuch to the garden to guard, and the other Gonggua that they entered would not eat it to prevent others from poisoning.

So there are so many stories in watermelon?

Hurry up and let me pick one too

But how should I pick melon?

I bought a watermelon and didn't finish it.

How to store it?

1. Only need to keep plastic wrap, or food bags in the supermarket, and then prepare a pot of cold water.

2. Wrap the watermelon with plastic wrap, and then use a toothpick to tie some small holes on the plastic wrap.

3. Slowly put the wrapped watermelon in cold water (Note: water cannot exceed the surface of watermelon). It is not a problem to put it for two days. This preservation method is similar to the principle of the cellar.

When you want to eat it again, cut the top layer of the watermelon first, so that the taste will be better. However, it is recommended that you eat watermelon that is cooked.

Can I put the refrigerator directly?

After all, this is the practice of most people

Pay attention to 2 points to put the refrigerator

① Put in time: After the watermelon is cut, put it in the refrigerator as quickly as possible. Do not eat the stomach for an hour or two to put the rest of the refrigerator.

② Packing plastic wrap: The plastic wrap can beolate the watermelon and other foods in the refrigerator to avoid secondary pollution.

② Do not the next day: the refrigeration time of watermelon in the refrigerator, it is best not to exceed 12 hours, and do not exceed 24 hours.

Although watermelon is a summer antipathy artifact

But there are taboos ...

Diabetes patients should not eat

People with diabetes eat too much watermelon in a short period of time. Not only will blood sugar rise, but the severe condition may also be acidic poisoning or even life -threatening due to the disorders of modern metabolitics.

People with physical deficiency and stomach cold should not eat more

Watermelon is a cold product. If there are too many people with a cold and cold body, it will cause abdominal distension and diarrhea, decreased appetite, and cumulative cold.

Those with no kidney function are not edible

For those with incomplete renal function, the ability to regulate water in the kidneys is significantly reduced. For the excessive moisture in the body, it cannot regulate and excrete the body. The blood blood capacity increases sharply, which can easily cause acute heart failure.

The watermelon that is opened for a long time should not be eaten

The summer temperature is high, and the bacteria are easy to reproduce. The watermelon that has been opened for a long time is prone to a large number of germs. If consumed, it will cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Therefore, eating watermelon should pay attention to choosing mature fresh watermelons, and it is best to finish eating at the time.

Eat less ice watermelon

Although the heat relief effect of eating ice watermelon is very good, the stimulation of the stomach is great, and it is easy to cause spleen and stomach damage. Therefore, you should pay attention to grasp the delicious temperature and quantity.

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