Melon bead is a kind of pumpkin-like bead, which is oval and divided into pumpkin shape by ribs.

Pumpkin was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty. According to this logic, China native melon beads appeared after the Ming Dynasty, but the earliest melon beads unearthed in China tombs can be traced back to the Song and Liao Dynasties.

Therefore, the shape of melon beads was not created by China people. In fact, as early as 2500 BC, Urpolis, which made jewelry for the Sumerian royal family in Mesopotamia, had superb pearl making technology. They use complicated gold processing technology to make gold and silver silk products, and make gold and lapis lazuli into grooved melon beads.

Guazhu, which was born in China, has different appearances in different periods.

For example, in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the South Red Agate Melon Beads were flat and polygonal, a bit like abacus beads.

Hanging beads in the Ming Dynasty is characterized by long piles, which look like strangulation.

The characteristics of the Qing dynasty are more oblique and round, mostly round.

New era apple orchards, old types, palindromes, hidden barrels and straight barrels appear with the times.