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Do you know the custom of chasing rats on Lantern Festival?

the Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. Eating dumplings and watching lanterns are all familiar customs at this time. So what is the custom of chasing rats in the Lantern Festival? Why do people chase rats? Let's take a look at the custom of chasing rats in the Lantern Festival!

Chasing rats

Chasing rats is mainly what people say about sericulture. Because rats often eat silkworms in large areas in the night, it is said that on the 15th day of the first month, when they are fed with rice porridge, they can stop eating silkworms. So, these people boil a big pot of sticky porridge on the 15th day of the first month, some of them still cover a layer of meat on it, put the porridge in a bowl, put it in the ceiling, the corner of the wall, put it in their mouth and recite words, curse the mouse and then eat the silkworm baby.