Why are Chinese New Year customs different from region to region?

Customs of the Spring Festival have a great deal to do with geography, and the customs of the Spring Festival in each region are generally different, but there are also some similarities. The relationship is as follows:

1, Northeast: Northeastern people used to call the Spring Festival "the big year". They like to eat dumplings, in the Lunar New Year, began to pickle pickled garlic, which is a necessary condiment for dipping dumplings. After the Lunar New Year's Day, they began to prepare for the New Year's goods, the most important of which is to kill the pig, kill the pig, people will kill the pig's fat, blood sausage and sauerkraut stewed together in a cauldron, this is the Northeast China's famous "pig-killing dishes".

2, Northwest China: In Shaanxi, for example, in the month of Lunar New Year, people start to press cake noodles, grind tofu, steam yellow buns, make yellow wine, roll miscellaneous noodles, fry oil cakes, and prepare New Year's food. In Shaanxi, people make a "jujube pai pai" for their children to hang on their backs as a good-luck charm to protect them from evil spirits and blessings. They are made of red thread threaded with jujubes and cereal grass, with a copper coin hanging above and a firecracker falling below. Others use red thread to put on a needlework "thimble", hanging on the child's neck, is also a blessing of good luck, called "increase the age of the thimble", from birth to the age of 12, each year will increase a. In addition, the "rice-planting song" is also a blessing of good luck, and is also a blessing of good luck. In addition, "rice-planting songs to pay tribute to the New Year" is the most unique customs in the northern Shaanxi New Year customs. During the Spring Festival, villages should be organized rice-planting teams, one by one to pay tribute to the New Year, they call this "along the door".

3, Southwest China: In Sichuan, for example, after the Lunar New Year's Day, we have to prepare bacon, sausage, lungs, and other kinds of cured goods, usually cooked, to eat until the end of the year. Firecrackers are set off on the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, and soup dumplings are eaten on the morning of the first day. During the daytime from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the third day of the Lunar New Year, people visit their relatives who are older and of a higher generation, and they should bring along gifts such as milk, wine, and leaf tobacco (tobacco). During the day, the teahouses are very lively, with many performances of Sichuan opera and commentary. There is also the Lantern Festival, the love of lively, peaceful Sichuan people, the New Year can not be no "lights", the Lantern Festival has become an indispensable Sichuan New Year's "program".