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Chinese people have a habit of eating sunflower seeds since ancient times. Different regions in China have their own wonderful food cultures, but melon seeds are the unified after-dinner snack for Chinese people.
Since the Ming Dynasty, plots of selling and eating melon seeds have appeared in many dramas, novels and other literary works.
During the Kangxi period, there was a poem that said: "The horses and carriages returned home in the deep air, and melon seeds were sold along the street all night." But the melon seeds at that time were mainly watermelon seeds.
Kong Shangren, a famous writer in the early Qing Dynasty, was good at observing life from details. When describing melon seeds in "Jiexu Tongfeng Lu", he used the word "呑" to write vividly and interestingly:
"Put fried watermelon seeds on your sleeves and chew them along the way to crack your teeth."
In the later "Dream of Red Mansions", "eating melon seeds" is also a snack that ladies and maids have regardless of their status.
Not only did the maids eat melon seeds all over the floor, but in the classic scene in the eighth episode where Lin Daiyu visits a patient and Xue Baochai meets Jia Baoyu, Sister Lin becomes so jealous that she eats melon seeds while watching Baoyu scalding the wine:
"Daiyu was chewing melon seeds and just smiling with her lips pursed."
Sister Lin's plate of melon seeds must have a bit of a sour taste.
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