What is the meaning of Lantern Stealing Vegetables

In ancient China, the Han Chinese had the custom of stealing vegetables to seek a son or son-in-law on the Lantern Festival. To this day, the custom of passing on love at Stealing Vegetables is still preserved among the Miao people in the Huangping generation of Guizhou Province. On this day, the girls will go to steal vegetables of the opposite sex from non-native families, hoping to "steal" a good marriage.

"Stealing Vegetables Festival" is also the children's happiest festival, "Stealing Vegetables Festival" night, the children will go to the field in groups of three to five to steal fresh vegetables, small friends in the moonlight play play, singing and playing. Until the moon is almost in the middle of the sky, only to start picking other people's vegetable fields in the cabbage moss, garlic seedlings and other vegetables to bring home, and then their own hands to steal the vegetables to do a good job, to invite their families and neighbors to eat.