Pumpkin is called pumpkin: 1. At the beginning, China people mistakenly thought that this melon came from Japan, so it was called Japanese pumpkin, while the Japanese thought that this melon came from China and was called Tang eggplant. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, southern pumpkins were transplanted northward along the Grand Canal. People realized that pumpkins should come from the south, so the name pumpkin became popular. 2. According to ancient books, Jia Ming mentioned pumpkins in "Dietary Instructions" in Yuan Dynasty. He said: pumpkin, sweet, warm, eat more beriberi jaundice. The name of pumpkin comes from this. An annual creeping herb of Cucurbitaceae, Cucurbitaceae, often with nodal roots, stout petioles, wide oval or oval leaves, slightly soft texture, bulging veins, slightly thick tendrils, monoecious, thick pedicels, angular and grooved, depending on species, often with several longitudinal grooves or none outside, and most seeds are oval or oblong. Annual creeping herbs; Stems usually take root at nodes, reaching 2-5 meters long and densely covered with short white bristles. Petiole stout, 8- 19 cm long, short bristles; Leaf blade is broadly ovoid or ovoid, slightly soft, 5-angled or 5-shallow, sparse and blunt, long12-25cm, wide 20-30cm, with smaller lateral lobes and larger middle lobes, densely covered with yellow-white bristles and fine hairs, often with white spots and convex veins, and the midvein of each lobe often extends to the top, forming a small tip with a light back. Tendrils are slightly stout, covered with short bristles and petiole-like hairs, 3-5 forked.