Eating glutinous rice balls and stealing lanterns can lead to various diseases. Remember these Lantern Festival customs?

Eating glutinous rice balls symbolizes better family reunion, and eating glutinous rice balls means family happiness and reunion in the new year, so it is a must-have food for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. In some areas in the south, people will also get used to eating glutinous rice balls during the Spring Festival instead of jiaozi.

"Stealing youth" is a folk custom. Every night from the twelfth to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people go to other fields to "steal vegetables". In the old countryside of Guangdong, there has always been a mysterious and romantic custom: stealing youth. In the old society, unmarried women were imprisoned by ethical codes and could not leave home several times a year. Stealing youth stems from people's yearning for the release of free thoughts.

Lantern Festival, an ancient folk culture in China, generally refers to the large-scale lantern show held by the government around the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, which is often accompanied by some folk activities, which is very traditional and local. On the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, people in China have the custom of watching lanterns. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, a traditional festival in China, was ushered in. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month the Lantern Festival.

Walking away from all kinds of diseases, also known as "wandering all kinds of diseases" and "dispersing all kinds of diseases", is a traditional folk culture in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some are held on the fifteenth day of the first month, but most of them are held on the sixteenth day of the first month. On this day, women dressed in festive costumes went out of their homes in droves, crossed the bridge for danger, went into the city, and knelt down to beg for their children until midnight. Women in Texas climbed the south gate and walked to the temple pavilion. As the saying goes, "it's easy to climb the city." Women in Huangxian county must cross the crescent bridge in Xiguan if they want to stay away from all diseases.