This Day, That Year

Item from March 22, 1985, in China Daily: Farmer Cai Xixin and his wife, of Dongzhuangxiang village in Wuxi county, Jiangsu province, add another bundle to the dowry of their daughter just before she moves out to join her husband in another village.

Her parents have become more generous following the new growth in their incomes.

Chinese parents have traditionally provided dowries for their daughters, with the items changing significantly in many parts of the country in the past decades amid rapid development.