The origin of picking green on the fifteenth day of the first month

In some places, the Spring Festival follows the folk custom of picking green flowers. Every year on New Year's Eve, I go to the wild to symbolically collect some vegetables and branches to go home, in order to pray for good weather and safety in the coming year. When picking green, make a wish at the same time. Don't make much noise. Go quietly, return quietly. If outsiders see it, it won't work. After picking vegetables, put these vegetables and branches on the altar at the door and in the main house. This custom should have originated in the Yangtze River valley and is closely related to the traditional "Year" in China. The original meaning of "year" is barnyard grass, which is the maturity of crops. "Biography of Gu Liang" said: "When all the grains are ripe, it is called a bumper year" and "When all the grains are ripe, it is called a bumper year". The original intention of picking green is to harvest mature crops. From the perspective of traditional culture, picking flowers on New Year's Eve is an ancient ritual activity. On the one hand, I am grateful for the gift of nature and pray for good weather in the coming year. On the other hand, it is a manifestation of people's spiritual sustenance, expressing a good wish to eliminate disasters and avoid disasters and pray for blessing.

In some places, it is the fifteenth day of the first month. Many years ago, it was not called picking green, it was called stepping green, and it was also called stepping green. Young people all go out to play together in the moonlight. Someone will steal some food from the passing vegetable fields and cook it at home. This is called stealing vegetables. In normal times, outsiders are generally not allowed to enter the vegetable fields of local people, but on the fifteenth day of the first month, in order to show their blessing to young people, they don't blame young people for stealing them. Instead, some hosts will send sugar cane to wish sweetness and longevity. Later, it became a custom and has continued to this day.