"Daughter wine" is brewed after the daughter is born and stored in a dry cellar, or buried under the soil, and some are pressed against the wall. It is not until the daughter grows up and gets married that she digs it out for a treat or as a dowry. Later, this custom evolved into making wine when the boy was born, painting the jar with cinnabar and naming it "Zhuangyuanhong", which means that his son is the champion. Daughter wine is very particular about jars, and often uses adobe to shape various flowers, figures and other patterns. After the kiln is burned, the painter is invited to draw various kinds of scenery, pavilions, birds and beasts, cranes, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, crossing the sea with the Eight Immortals, dragons and phoenixes and other folk legends and opera stories. There are inscriptions or decorative patterns on the top of the picture, which can be filled with auspicious wishes such as "Spend a full moon", "Prosperity in the fifth century", "Grow old together" and "All the best" to convey good wishes to the newlyweds. This kind of jar is called "carved jar". Daughter's wine was originally rice wine. Because it was put into a jar of carved wine, it had a new name-carved wine. This carved wine has been stored for about 20 years, and when it is unsealed, it smells strange. "Flower carving" has become synonymous with Shaoxing children.
Even today, if you have a daughter, people will jokingly call it "celebrating the flowers in the door." In Shaoxing's wedding wine custom, in addition to "daughter wine", there were many names such as "wedding wine", "Geng wine" and "Nacai wine" in the old society, all of which were run by men and women themselves. "Engagement wine" is a key step in the whole marriage process, second only to marriage, and it is a prelude to a formal wedding. Today, in many places in Shaoxing, people still attach importance to engagement, holding banquets and meeting relatives and friends, so "engagement wine" is still an important wine custom.