A dowry is a gift. When a daughter gets married, she must first prepare a dowry. It is popular in some areas of Han nationality in modern times. Dowry is provided by the woman and can be divided into bedding, decoration, daily use and other items. Because the world regards dowry as the bride's identity, ordinary people have to spend all their money to arrange big events in order to compete for dignity. Most dowry items are clothes, mosquito nets, quilts, bathtubs, footbath, washbasin (frame), buckets, wooden cases, wooden cabinets, drawer tables, big tables and chairs, small tables and chairs, braziers, charcoal, tea sets and tableware. And many of them can reach elevators above ten floors. In order to display richness, 2 ~ 4 people will bring big items, and 2 people will bring small items together. Due to the large number of people, the team is huge and spectacular. Many rich families have people who accompany Tian to accompany the mountain. There is also a custom in poor families. The man prepares a part of the dowry, quietly sends it to the woman's house in advance, and brings it back to the man's house together on the day of the ceremony. Due to the abundant dowry, there is a folk custom that "the baby is full of red and the daughter is empty".

In the old Beijing area, after receiving the wedding gift from the man's family, the woman's family divided the dragon and phoenix wedding cakes and refreshments into several portions, put them in boxes, and gave them to the close relatives such as seven aunts and eight aunts in a friendly way, informing them of the date of the dowry and expressing their invitation. For ordinary friends, just send an invitation. The letter wrote: "I sincerely hope to mark" ××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××

When a woman marries, she must marry him. There are many names, and her wealth changes with the wealth of her family. 1June, 924, Mr. Gu Jiegang published an article in Peking University Ballad Weekly, listing the "striking" of a wedding in Suzhou in the fifteenth year of Guangxu (1889): all kinds of utensils such as copper, tin, porcelain, teeth, bamboo and wood were complete and had boxes. Fifty-one pieces of wood such as cabinets, dressing tables and bathtubs, six pieces of bamboo such as silk reeds and laundry baskets, and various kinds of mirrors, such as reunion mirrors, ivory chopsticks and other dental appliances and bedding.

In Tianmen, Hubei Province, there was a rule of "one room and one hall" for a woman's dowry, that is, the furniture in the hall and bridal chamber was accompanied by the woman, while the ceremony at the man's house required "whole pig and sheep". As a result, "one room, one living room" and "whole pig and whole sheep" have become the dowry and dowry standards of local well-off families. In Jingshan area, in addition to household items, windmills, waterwheels, hoes, sickles, rakes and other farm tools are also very popular. In public security and other places, there must be eight big chairs in the dowry and put them in the main room to show the style of the bride's family. Suizhou custom, dowry has three, four and five heads. Everything is even, everything is household goods. Zhuxi area is divided into three, four, eight or even twenty-four lifts. There is a local saying that "eight pigs, eight sheep and eight dowries are given to girls".