As the saying goes, China is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, and customs vary greatly from place to place. For example, the custom of giving out red envelopes during the Spring Festival is different. Although there is a custom of issuing red envelopes all over the country, the amount of red envelopes has its own characteristics. In northern areas such as Shandong, Hubei, Jiangxi and other places, no matter how many parents, if the red envelope is less than 100, they are simply embarrassed to take out their hands. Now many areas have even soared to 1000 yuan.

In the south, such as Guangdong, it is common to give a five-dollar red envelope for the New Year. Moreover, Cantonese people love to give out red envelopes. During the Spring Festival, even the community security guards have red envelopes. Although the amount is not large, it is an auspicious implication: the more you pay, the more you will earn back in the coming year.

If it is a trivial matter to give out red envelopes every year, then the custom of weddings and funerals is quite different, which has brought many practical influences. Take the wedding customs in Guangdong as an example. Except for Chaoshan and a few areas in western Guangdong, compared with the high bride price in the north, in Guangdong, women generally don't care about bride price, and some women don't even want bride price or dowry, so they are more open in their attitude towards marriage and love than in the north.

However, Guangdong weddings have many unique traditional customs. For example, many people often see the "golden bride" on the Internet. When the bride gets married, her neck and arms will be covered with gold and silver jewelry. At the wedding in Guangdong, gold and silver jewelry is no longer a decorative significance, but a fixed ceremony, and wearing gold and silver is most vividly presented in Guangdong's wife.

Moreover, it is worth mentioning that this custom of bride wearing gold is not a traditional custom, and there is no cultural significance behind it. I got up after the reform. The fashion of wearing gold is more a display of wealth, in which the comparative significance is greater than the aesthetic significance. Of course, it can become an important part of weddings in Guangdong, which actually reflects the influence of the rapid economic development in this area on ordinary people. As the saying goes, wealth is not exposed, but Guangdong daughter-in-law wants to be covered with gold and silver jewelry, which is actually the good intention of her parents. On the one hand, most of the gold and silver come from the gifts of her relatives, giving the woman financial help, so that she will have a good wealth foundation in the future. On the other hand, the bigger the quarrel, the more she can shock the man and make him feel awe of the woman. Therefore, in Guangdong, many women's parents.

The formation of cultural customs is the product of multi-faceted and multi-climatic blending. When we can't understand them deeply, we can't blindly think that they are dross, and we can't inherit and carry them forward dialectically. Custom is the concrete expression ceremony of culture and the cultural conversion of many people, because the existence of custom gives life a sense of ritual. Of course, custom, as an obstacle to life, must be abandoned.