Generally, the wife's family will put money, jewelry, children and grandchildren buckets, bedding, daily necessities, happy eggs, sugar jars and other items in the box. These items generally contain the good wishes of the woman's relatives for her married life.
1. Squeeze money
The woman's parents will put some money in the four corners and the center of the dowry box, hoping that these dowry money can make the daughter richer after marriage, and can also be used as an emergency, which is a blessing and a kind of parents' love for their daughter, hoping that her daughter can take care of herself, and generally can put the lucky number 6666.
2. Jewelry
The three gold bought by the man, as well as some valuable items sent by relatives, are put into the dossier box, and some meaningful and valuable jewelry items prepared by parents are put in it together, implying that parents pass on all the best things to their daughters, which is also the love and blessing of parents for their children, generally placed in the box, and then put into the dossier box. So the dowry box is also a very important part.
3. Posterity bucket
As the name suggests, is to carry on the family line, the meaning of many children and grandchildren, is also an indispensable item in the dossier box, in the past, there is a large bucket in the grandchildren bucket, a small foot basin, a scale, practical is very strong, but now basically no one has used, so are based on crafts, wrapped with red cloth. There are also some auspicious items in it, such as red dates, longans, eternal fruit, lilies, lotus seeds, red peanuts, chopsticks, red duck eggs, cypress branches, etc., representing that the daughter brings children to the husband's family.
4. Bedding
The woman needs to prepare a pair of pillows, a red quilt, a dragon and phoenix quilt, a set of red sheets, and three sets of mattresses, and then put them in the dowry box, take them to the man's home, and spread them on the wedding bed in the wedding room.
5. Daily necessities
Toothbrush, toothpaste, bath lotion, shampoo, towels, clothes, etc., the first meaning of placing these things is that her daughter is married and will move to the man's home with her daily necessities.
Another point is that many people live in the hotel on the wedding day, and many daily necessities are not provided by the hotel or are not used by the new couple, and are directly placed in the dowry box to be used.
6. Salt, soy sauce, vinegar
Preparing these kitchen spices means that the daughter of the woman's family is very capable, on the hall under the kitchen, is very suitable for marrying home as a daughter-in-law.
In other words, it is actually the woman's family in a way to the man's family praise their daughter thrifty, family management means, so that the man's family cherish the bride.
7. Happy eggs
The meaning of the happy egg is naturally early birth of your son, this is a lucky picture, I hope that the new couple can have children smoothly after marriage.
8. Clothes
For the bride, clothes are indispensable, and several sets will be changed on the day, so the clothes should be put in the dowry box.
9. Red washbasin
In the dowry box, you need to prepare two red washbasins. In the red basin, socks and leather SHOES prepared by the bride for her husband and wife should be placed, and socks, peanuts and sugar should be placed inside the shoes. Then in another basin need to put longan, cypress branches, health scales and other items.
10. Sugar jar
The sugar jar is also an indispensable item in the dowry box. At the same time, put some sugar in the sugar jar, which means sweet honey.