What are the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Traditional folklore in the Wu region is that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, women go out in full makeup and walk on the moon, which is called "walking on the moon". In the past, women in the Jiangsu area would walk on the moon on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. Generally, they would play under the moon in groups, or visit each other, or worship Buddhist nunneries, or hold cultural and artistic activities. It is said that the women of Suzhou had to walk across at least three bridges to reach the moon, which is called "walking across three bridges". Some of them have to walk across more bridges without being allowed to repeat the process, which requires not only physical strength, but also intelligence.

Traditional customs refer to the people in the social life of the gradual formation of the consolidated from the history of the inheritance, with a stable social customs and behavioral practices, and has been closely integrated with the national mood and social psychology, people consciously or unconsciously behavioral norms. The content of traditional customs is complex, the existence of traditional customs in a society is divided into two parts:

One is the legacy of history, which has a long history, the era of the long, with social, group, national characteristics. Different regions, different collectives, different ethnic groups have different traditional customs, such as the folk customs of different ethnic groups. Secondly, it is adapted to the reality of social and historical conditions and produced, such as the establishment of new China advocated the new living customs.