What does it mean to steal youth on the fifteenth day of the first month? Where is the custom of stealing Youth Day on Lantern Festival?

There are customs around the Lantern Festival, even in different villages, but in China, there are generally customs such as watching Lantern Festival, riddles and eating Lantern Festival. However, it is estimated that many people have never heard of a custom of stealing vegetables. In some places in the south, during the Lantern Festival every year, people will go to other people's fields in droves to pick blue vegetables, forming a unique Lantern Festival custom.

What does it mean to steal green on the fifteenth day of the first month?

1. It is said that on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month, boys in some places will steal vegetables from the fields of girls they like. According to legend, this can steal a year's good luck. If a young man likes a girl, he will go to her vegetable field and steal some of her dishes, so that the girl will know that a young man is in love with her.

2. The young man goes home, picks some green pea tips for his mother, and tells her who 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.

3. It is also said that in the south, on the night of the 15th day of the first month, a woman who steals other people's food can have a son.

Where is the custom of stealing green?

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. The owner who is stolen will not be angry, because others steal their own vegetables, which shows that their vegetables are well planted, especially in modern times, people's material level is not low, and stealing green has become a feeling.

The Origin of the Lantern Festival Stealing Youth Day

From ancient times to the present, there have been four traditional customs in the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month: eating Yuanxiao, traveling in all diseases, picking green flowers and enjoying Yuanxiao. There are many legends about the origin of stealing green. The most popular story originated from Meng Jiangnv. Meng Jiangnv trekked thousands of miles to find her husband. On the way to the Great Wall, she was too hungry. She stole vegetables from other people's vegetable fields. Later, women sympathized with her misfortune and commemorated her with "stealing youth". But opinions vary from place to place, and many people don't know the real reason.