What can gourds do?

Gourds can be made into wine pots, living utensils, such as scoops, songbird toys, such as caddis gourds, and ornamental items.

Cucurbits can be eaten as fruits and vegetables, and eat a variety of ways, both soup, but also to do dishes, both pickled, but also dry sunshine, soup soup fragrance four floating, the flavor of its fresh.

Unlike other fruits and gourds, both gourds and its leaves, should be eaten when young, otherwise it will lose its food value after maturity.

Cucurbits can not only contain medicine, itself can also be medicine, gourd taste sweet, smooth and non-toxic, its vines, beards, leaves, flowers, seeds, shells can be used in medicine, treatment of a variety of diseases.

In ancient times, the gourd is an important raw material for making musical instruments, and its value is no less than that of silk and bamboo, and there is one of the eight tones of Lagenaria in the Yao Codex.

The use of gourd as a daily utensil is also multi-faceted. Gourd openings made into a variety of shapes for use, the most common is used to fill water or wine kettle or wine pots, can also be used to scoop up water, rice, scooping noodles, things such as things.