Will it be popular for the ancients to eat melon seeds in the New Year?

The custom of eating melon seeds in China was popular in Ming Dynasty. Historically, watermelon seeds have a long history. The earliest record that watermelon seeds can be eaten is Wang Zhennong's book in Yuan Dynasty: "(Watermelon) is easy to get with recommended tea." In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, no other melon seeds could shake the status of watermelon seeds. And the custom of eating melon seeds was introduced into the court. It is recorded in the Proceedings of the Ming Dynasty that Ming Shenzong Zhu Yijun "roasted fresh watermelon seeds with a little salt".

People in China regard sunflower seeds as snacks, and the time to start eating them should not exceed the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, otherwise it will not be recorded in ancient books. It was in the late Qing Dynasty that sunflower seeds replaced watermelon seeds and became a common snack in the market.