This paper analyzes the differences of Spring Festival customs in different regions of China, the formation of these differences, the natural relationship and the natural environment.

Northerners make jiaozi, while southerners make rice cakes. The shape of jiaozi is like an "ingot" and the sound of rice cakes is like "rice cakes", which is a good sign of good luck. On New Year's Eve, the lights are brightly lit, people say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and enjoy themselves. The New Year bell rang, firecrackers rang, and the celebration reached its climax.

Zhanjiang, located at the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland, has this custom every year during the Spring Festival. There is a saying in Zhanjiang that New Year's Day is New Year's Day. Generally, it starts on the second day of the Lunar New Year and ends before Tomb-Sweeping Day. There is no place where the New Year is different, so it will take so long! On this day every year, people who work outside the home usually come back. On this day, chickens will be killed, and relatives and friends will go home for dinner.

The differences of customs in each region are closely related to the environment. For example, Xijiang boathouse Spring Festival custom. After the Spring Festival, fishermen hung red banners with auspicious wishes in their homes. They like to put "Bon voyage" on the bow, "All the best" and "Peace through the year" on the cabin, and "red money" with unique money paper-cut patterns. In addition, they will set off firecrackers at the bow, worship their ancestors first, and worship the gods on the shore to bless peace and happiness.

The specific Spring Festival customs are:

Sacrificing ancestors: Sacrificing ancestors on New Year's Eve is one of the important customs of China New Year. The Chinese nation has a tradition of pursuing the future with caution, and will never forget to worship our ancestors and repay their kindness. On New Year's Eve, people will put on dishes, pour wine and hold a grand sacrifice ceremony to express their memory of their ancestors and pray for their blessing.

This traditional custom has been passed down from generation to generation, and people always hold sacrificial ceremonies on New Year's Eve to express their gratitude and pray for blessing. There is a long history of ancestor worship on New Year's Eve, and there are different forms of ancestor worship. Some people go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors, but most of them put their ancestral tablets in the main hall in turn at home to show their sacrifice, and then the worshippers burn incense and bow down in order of age. Worship ancestors, mostly fish bowls, filled with high bowls, quite ringing.

Sticking New Year Red is a general term for sticking Spring Festival couplets, door gods, New Year pictures and window grilles. Because these are all red festive elements pasted during the New Year, they are collectively called "Sticking New Year Red".

Gatekeeper: At first, the gatekeeper carved mahogany into a human shape and hung it next to people. Later, it was painted as a gatekeeper and posted on the door. The legendary brothers Shen Tu and Lei Yu specialize in ghosts. They guard the portal, so evil spirits dare not enter the portal to do bad things. After the Tang Dynasty, two brave soldiers, Qin Qiong and Wei Chijingde, were painted as gatekeepers, while Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were painted as gatekeepers.

Every household has a keeper. Later generations often regard painting a pair of door gods as a skill. Spring Festival couplets: also known as "door couplets", "couplets" and "peach symbols", are a kind of couplets, named after being posted during the Spring Festival. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China.

Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival. There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into door heart, frame pair, cross string, spring strip and bucket square according to the place of use.

New Year pictures: Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also very common in urban and rural areas. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and happy holiday atmosphere to thousands of families. These all have folk functions of praying and decorating the residence. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects people's customs and beliefs and places their hopes for the future.

New Year's Eve is one of the customs of New Year's Day, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, reunion dinner and so on. Especially the New Year's Eve dinner. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient ritual vessels at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. Reunion dinner is the highlight of the year ago, which is not only colorful, but also very meaningful. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony.

Generally, there are chicken (representing a plan), fish (more than enough every year), oyster sauce (good for the market), Nostoc flagelliforme (rich), yuba (rich), lotus root (smart), lettuce (rich) and raw garlic (calculated). China people's New Year's Eve dinner is a family reunion dinner, which is the most abundant and important dinner in a year.

Lucky money (known as "gift giving" in Guangdong) is one of the customs of the Spring Festival, which is distributed by the elders to the younger generation. After dinner in 2008, the elders should distribute the lucky money prepared in advance to the younger generation. It is said that lucky money can kill evil spirits, and the younger generation can spend a year safely with it.

In some families, parents will put lucky money under their pillows after their children fall asleep at night, which shows the care of the elders and the respect of the younger generation for the elders. It is a folk activity that integrates family ethics. Lucky money has the meaning of exorcising evil spirits and keeping peace in folk culture. The original intention of lucky money is to suppress evil and drive away evil, because people think that children are easy to sneak around, so they use lucky money to suppress evil.

Keeping New Year's Eve: China people have the habit of keeping New Year's Eve. After the reunion dinner, the stove should be cleaned to prevent vegetarianism on the first day of the first month or all day. In the evening, every room should be brightly lit all night, which is called "lighting the Lunar New Year fire".

The folk custom of keeping New Year's Eve is that the lights are always on on New Year's Eve. Observing New Year's Eve is called "lighting up the New Year", that is, it is full of lights and candles on New Year's Eve. It is said that after this pass, the family's wealth will be more abundant in the coming year.