This study investigated 374 typical villages located in different climatic zones. It also analyzed and explained the characteristics of rural greening and beautification modes to provide ideas for building beautiful and livable rural environments while realizing the goals of rural revitalization and development. The study used SPSS software to group homogeneous clusters of rural greening and beautification patterns, then it analyzed the dominant mode and identified the dominant homogeneous clusters in each climate zone using a classification program based on the principle of the natural breakpoint method written in Python. Ten groups of typical models of rural greening and beautification were obtained along with the fundamental model composition, model characteristics, and climate zone distribution characteristics related to the climate zone of the village. The modes of village settlement and surrounding greening and beautification were higher than that of village-wide greening. The greening and beautification of village settlements mainly include surrounding greening and residential courtyard landscaping. Village-wide greening primarily targets commercial forests and fruit trees, tourism gardens, and rural tourism. Greening and beautification measures in humid and semi-humid areas are dominated by forest landscaping and construction, protection of ancient and famous trees, rural parks and leisure green space construction, roadside and water greening. In contrast, in the arid and semi-arid areas and plateau climate areas, these measures dominantly target economic forest and fruit trees, tourism gardens, and rural tourism. On this basis, this paper summarizes the characteristics of rural greening and beautification modes in typical villages in the major climate zones of China under the guidance of four functions：settlement living environment, blue-green space, characteristic agriculture and forestry industry, and rural tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]