During the Japanese occupation, the Japanese scholar Naoichi Kokubu called this place Gourd-Offering Village after seeing many Tainan families using the same type of gourd-shaped hu or pin vessel.
早在日據時代，日本學者國分直一發現台南縣許多居民家中供有壺或瓶，便以「壺祀村」來指稱。