1, many children and grandchildren, long fortune: pumpkin has many seeds and long vines, which will always be intertwined, so it means many children and grandchildren and prosperity.
2. Happiness in life: Pumpkin meat is simple and sweet, so it has the meaning of love and happiness.
3. Abundance: The skin of pumpkin is yellow and looks auspicious, so it has a symbol of harvest, which means abundance.
Historical origin
Pumpkin originated in South America and has been cultivated for 9000 years. Columbus brought it back to Europe and introduced it from Portugal to Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines. China began to enter in Ming Dynasty.
Pumpkins were introduced into China in many ways, but Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang were the earliest. At the beginning, China people mistakenly thought that pumpkin came from Japan, so they named it "Japanese pumpkin". Because Japan is in the east of China, it is also called "East Pumpkin".
In addition, there is a misunderstanding that it is produced in the Korean peninsula and is called "Korean melon". More interestingly, the Japanese think that pumpkins come from China, so they are called "Tang Eggplant" (at that time, the Japanese generally called China products Tang objects).