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    Chinese Fruit, Vegetable & Insect Painting Luffa Gourd

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    The document summarizes information about the luffa gourd, a vine in the cucumber family with two main species. It grows yellow flowers and large green leaves. The fruit resembles a cucumber or zucchini and can be smooth or ridged. When ripe, the fibrous inner part is used to make bath sponges. Artists like Qi Baishi depicted luffa in paintings, often alongside insects. The gourd is eaten in soups and stir-fries when young before it becomes too tough.

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    The document summarizes information about the luffa gourd, a vine in the cucumber family with two main species. It grows yellow flowers and large green leaves. The fruit resembles a cucumber or zucchini and can be smooth or ridged. When ripe, the fibrous inner part is used to make bath sponges. Artists like Qi Baishi depicted luffa in paintings, often alongside insects. The gourd is eaten in soups and stir-fries when young before it becomes too tough.

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    The document summarizes information about the luffa gourd, a vine in the cucumber family with two main species. It grows yellow flowers and large green leaves. The fruit resembles a cucumber or zucchini and can be smooth or ridged. When ripe, the fibrous inner part is used to make bath sponges. Artists like Qi Baishi depicted luffa in paintings, often alongside insects. The gourd is eaten in soups and stir-fries when young before it becomes too tough.

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    Chinese Fruit, Vegetable &

    Insect Painting

    Luffa Gourd
    Luffa gourd
    The luffa gourd is a subtropical
    vine in the cucumber family
    which has two main species:

    Luffa aegyptiaca
    Luffa acutangula
    Luffa aegptiaca

    resembles a
    cucumber in
    shape and size.

    It has striking
    yellow flowers.
    Luffa
    acutangula

    resembles a
    cucumber or
    zucchini with
    ridges
    Characteristics
    Flowers
    Male flowers grows close to the stem and only have a thin stalk.
    Female flowers develop into fruits once they have been pollinated.
    Luffa Leaves

    are large, dark


    green that form
    a canopy over
    the fruits.
    Luffa fruit or sponge luffa grow downwards and may be slightly curly.

    The skin can be smooth (L. aegyptiaca)) or have ridges (L. acutangular).
    Tendrils

    spiral around
    objects so that
    the plant can
    be supported
    The first Chinese character for luffa:
    丝
    sounds the same as
    “to miss or to yearn”

    It symbolises “endless yearning” as


    well as safeness, auspiciousness and
    happiness.
    Cuisine

    They are eaten


    young as when it is
    fully ripened, it
    becomes strong,
    fibrous and
    inedible.

    They are commonly


    found in soups and
    stir-fries.
    Bath sponges
    are made from fully ripened fruit that are peeled and left
    to dry.
    Masters
    Qi Baishi
    (1864-1957)
    (Qing Dynasty –
    PROC)
    Luffa
    Qi Baishi
    (1864-1957)
    (Qing Dynasty –
    PROC)
    Luffa and
    Grasshopper
    Qi Baishi
    (1864-1957)
    (Qing Dynasty –
    PROC)
    Luffa and Insects
    Qi Baishi
    (1864-1957)
    (Qing Dynasty –
    PROC)
    Luffa and Insects
    Qi Baishi
    (1864-1957)
    (Qing Dynasty –
    PROC)
    Luffa and Insects
    Qi Baishi
    (1864-1957)
    (Qing Dynasty –
    PROC)
    Luffa and Insect
    Qi Baishi
    (1864-1957)
    (Qing Dynasty –
    PROC)
    Luffa
    Zhao Shao’ang
    (1905-1998)
    (Qing Dynasty –
    PROC)
    Luffa and Insects
    Lou Shibai
    (1918-2010)
    (RoC - PROC)
    Luffa and Chicks
    Liang Wenyao
    (1936)
    (PROC)
    Luffa
    Qin Tianzhu
    (1952)
    (PROC)
    Luffa and Insects

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