A tape recorder, a vacuum bottle, a mirror and comb and a quilt were the only items in the dowry that a wealthy mother sent to her daughter on January 2 when she got married in Chongqing Municipality.

The mother, surnamed He, owns a transportation company, but the simple dowry had a message. It was the same dowry her mother gave to her in the early 1980s.

Receiving the dowry, the bride, He Yu, and her husband, Wang Peng, thanked her mother and promised to pass on it to their children so that the next generation also would not forget the hard times China has faced.

(Chongqing Economic Daily)