Melon is a hieroglyph, which comes from the image of melon and fruit. In ancient times, people used pictures or words to express the shape and texture of melons and fruits, so they created melon characters.
The original meaning of the word melon refers to melons, especially melons that mature in summer. The word melon is often used in ancient literature to mean melons and fruits, such as picking and rolling ears in the Book of Songs, which are not full of baskets. I miss my lover, and the food basket was abandoned on the road. The curly ear here refers to a kind of melon called ear.
The word melon can also be extended to objects in the shape of melons and fruits, such as gourd and wax gourd. In addition, the word melon can also be used to describe the abnormal state of things, such as melon skin and melon-shaped words, which usually have a certain derogatory color.
In modern Chinese, the word melon is widely used. In addition to the above meaning, it can also be used to describe voice, human stupidity, weather and so on. For example, Li is more likely to arouse suspicion; The metaphor of the term Guadai means that someone who replaces others will come soon.
Melon combinations:
1, Melon: the general term for melon fruits, such as watermelon, cucumber and melon.
2. Division: Divide the whole into several parts or shares according to certain rules or standards.
3. Watermelon: A kind of melon with green skin, black stripes, red or yellow flesh and sweet juice.
4. Cucumber: a vegetable with rectangular or cylindrical fruit, green or yellow-green, with prickly protrusions on the surface, which can be eaten cold or fried.
5. Melon: a kind of fruit with yellow or green skin, sweet flesh and delicate taste, which is often used to make melon salad.
6. Wax gourd: A vegetable with cylindrical or rectangular fruit, hairy surface, white or green, tender meat and can be fried or made into soup.
7. Pumpkin: A vegetable with oblate or rectangular fruit, orange or yellow, and sweet flesh, which can be used for cooking or making pumpkin pie.
8. Bitter gourd: A vegetable with spindle-shaped or rectangular fruit with tumor-like protrusions on the surface, green or yellow, bitter taste, and can be fried or cold.
9. Luffa: a vegetable with long cylindrical fruit, green or yellowish, tender and tender, which can be fried or made into soup.
10. Cucumber soup: soup with cucumber as the main material, with light and refreshing taste.