Mid-Autumn also has the custom of listening to incense and stealing vegetables, which is the custom of which place?

About Mid-Autumn Stealing Vegetables custom of the Miao compatriots in Huangping, Guizhou, held on the night of the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, is a modest festival about silkworms. The term "listening to incense" originated in ancient China and first appeared in the Qing Dynasty and beyond.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Miao girls will go in groups to steal other people's vegetables. But not to steal their own family's vegetables or those of their own companions, because that would be related to their own marriage affairs.

The vegetables they steal can only be cabbages, not too many, enough for everyone to have a meal. There was no fear of being caught stealing vegetables, and the families of those who were stolen would not be blamed for the incident. Everyone would gather the stolen vegetables together, make a cabbage feast, and coax them to eat. It is said that whoever eats the most will be able to find a husband of her choice very early; at the same time, the silkworms she raises that year will be the strongest and spit out the most, whitest and best silk. Also in Taiwan, there are unmarried women in the night of the Lantern Festival to steal picking green onions or vegetables will be married to a good husband of the traditional custom, commonly known as: "Stealing and pulling the green onions, marrying good", "Stealing and pulling the vegetables, marrying a good son-in-law", hoping that the marriage is a happy girl.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival to listen to the fragrance of ancient celebrities, often people like to write Zheng Banqiao's couplet "eat ink and watch tea to listen to the fragrance of reading paintings, swallowing flowers and lying down to drink wine to drink the moon and the wind," the best lines. The upper and lower couplet a series of verb phrases, seemingly irrational, but also interesting. In ancient times, the maiden who was looking for a spouse had to burn incense in front of the gods at home to pay homage, tell her heart's desires, and pray to the gods to indicate the direction of listening to the incense, and then, according to the direction of the gods' instructions, she would overhear the first sentence inadvertently or surreptitiously on the road, and keep it in mind, and then go back home to throw it to judge to interpret the fortune or misfortune of the things that she had divined.

In summary, the custom of listening to the incense and stealing vegetables of the Miao people in Huangping, Guizhou Province, is a custom for Miao girls to seek a good spouse, to find the man of their dreams and to marry a good husband. It is also the hope that their marriage is full of family happiness.