What did watermelon initially look like, and where did it come to my country?

The sweet and delicious watermelon did not exist in ancient China. Watermelon, like tomatoes and peppers, is an exotic species. However, watermelon did not grow rapidly in China. When it first entered China, the taste was not like this. The sugar content and color are not as good as the current Kirin melon, Black Beauty and other varieties. After continuous improvement and hybridization, it has become today's national fruit.

According to research, this essential summer relief tool did not come from ancient Mesopotamia, but from ancient Sudan. Today's watermelons were not so sweet in ancient times. The ancestor of watermelons is the wild watermelon in Sudan. This kind of watermelon is not sweet, the flesh is white, and it is mainly used as animal feed (suddenly I feel that watermelon does not smell good).

Watermelons have a long history. An archaeological team found watermelon seeds "buried with them" in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. This shows that the history of human consumption of watermelons can be traced back to 3,300 years ago, but don’t get too excited because the watermelons eaten by the Egyptians at that time may not have been fully cultivated into the current red-fleshed variety.

The source of these watermelon seeds may be wild watermelons. The Egyptians at that time liked to eat watermelon seeds as a snack. Do you think this is the earliest record of eating watermelon? Then you are wrong: in subsequent Egyptian archaeological research, the appearance of a mural refreshed everyone's understanding of watermelon.

According to expert appraisal, this mural existed more than 1,000 years earlier than Tutankhamun. In addition to the magnificent statue of the Pharaoh with many subjects worshiping the Pharaoh, there are also other sweet fruits such as watermelons and grapes placed in a disk-shaped picture at the corner of the mural. From here we can boldly speculate that watermelon was probably introduced to Egypt from Sudan in ancient Egypt. After dozens of generations of hard work in Egypt, a variety similar to our current watermelons was finally developed. Not only do they like to eat the pulp, but they also like to eat watermelon seeds.