The origin of stealing vegetables in Lantern Festival

The origin of stealing vegetables on the Lantern Festival: It is said that on the fifteenth night of the first month, boys in some places will steal vegetables from the fields of girls they like, allegedly to steal good luck for a year.

The young man goes home, puts some green pea tips in his mother's hand, and tells her whose house this is, so that her mother will know who her son likes. Wenjing's mother cooked a pot of delicious Yangchun noodles to let her son have a hearty meal, and expected her son to live a long and good life, so that the matchmaker could go to the girl's house to propose marriage smoothly.

It is said that there are some traditional customs in Leshan, Meishan, Yibin and Luzhou in Sichuan. It is a very happy thing for a family to go green picking in groups of three or five. Old people say that picking green can bring you a good year. Pick up four vegetables and radishes at most, which means that all the year round is clear and everything goes well, and the more people are stolen, the more auspicious they are.

Other customs and habits of Lantern Festival

Walking on stilts is a very old folk performance, which appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. Lantern Festival, a folk activity of walking on stilts, is very popular in many places. Stilts are usually made of wood. Make a support point on the planed wooden stick to put your feet, and then tie it to your legs with a rope. Performers can not only walk freely on stilts, but also do various difficult movements such as splitting, jumping on the bench, yangko, knife and gun.

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Whenever the Lantern Festival or other assembly ceremonies are held, people will entertain themselves by dancing lions. This custom originated in the Three Kingdoms period and was popular in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a history of 1000 years.