Through this, the bottle gourd has become an auspicious symbol. The vegetable actually has several names in Chinese based on its variety of shapes, including hookua, paokua, hukua and pulu.
葫蘆既是神仙隨身所攜之物，自然也就沾染了仙氣，流傳至今，一直是吉祥如意的象徵。