What are the bride’s dowry items?

The woman’s dowry items:

1. Dowry box

The red box is what folk custom calls the bottom of the box. The color of the box is of course bright red. , and there are generally three types of red boxes: camphor wood boxes, suitcases and trolley boxes. This depends on the bride’s own preference.

2. Bedding

Bedding is generally 4 wedding quilts, 4 mattress quilts, 4 pillows and 4 cushions. Among them, the wedding quilt is composed of 2 ordinary quilts, a hundred-child quilt and a dragon and phoenix quilt, which has the meaning of smoothly passing on the family line and the dragon and the phoenix.

3. Daily necessities

After the bride marries into the groom’s family, she will live in the groom’s home from now on, so she must prepare a new set of daily necessities for future use. Mainly toothbrushes, toothpaste, towels, shampoo, shower gel, etc. If the bride is getting married in a hotel, she can take them out and use them on the same day at the hotel.

4. Descendants Buckets

There are two Descendants Buckets. Two descendant buckets are placed with 8 things in each. One bucket is placed with red dates, red peanuts, longan and lotus seeds which mean "birth of a child early". The other bucket is placed with popcorn, 5 salted duck eggs and toilet paper. And a pack of chopsticks. After preparing these things, wrap the outside of the bucket with red cloth, and then place a bundle of cypress branches and a word "happy" on top of the bucket.

5. Red washbasins

Similar to the descendant buckets, there are also two red washbasins, and corresponding things must be placed inside. A health scale and dieffenbachia (with seeds are required) should be placed in a red washbasin, and the hat and shoes given by the bride to her parents-in-law should be placed in the other red washbasin (a pair of socks, two candies and three red peanuts should be placed inside the shoes). . Similarly, after these things are prepared, sprinkle some red dates, peanuts, longans and lotus seeds in the pot, and finally place the cypress branches and the red character "Xi" on top.