Pinghu wedding customs are mainly represented by "Caoqiao asking for a wife". In the old days, when Pinghu people got married, the well-off families used sedan chairs, while the poor families used boats. After the founding of New China, they all used boats to carry the bride and dowry. Boating is the minimum requirement for a formal marriage. The wedding must be in the morning, and there is a wedding banquet at noon. On the wedding day, after the bride gets off the boat, the matchmaker must take the bride to the husband's house from the southeast corner of the man's house. All families who give gifts when the girl gets married must be invited. When "matching", the flower bonus (matchmaker gift) sent by the man's family cannot be accepted. If accepted, the gift must be returned double. A Chinese evergreen must be dug and wrapped in red paper, which means that the newlyweds' marriage will last forever. Some people also give a pair of copper rice bowls as a gift, and return the gift with pig's feet, which is commonly known as "foot foot". Recruiting a son-in-law is commonly known as "recruiting a son-in-law". Generally, because there are many daughters but no sons in the family, or the sons are young and there is a lack of male labor to cultivate the fields and manage the family business, the woman asks a matchmaker to recruit a young man of the same age as the daughter as a son-in-law. The man is often poor, has many brothers, and has a shortage of housing, making it difficult to marry a daughter-in-law. The woman prepares gifts to get engaged, and chooses an auspicious day to take the boat to pick up the son-in-law to get married. Recruiting a son-in-law had a very low status in the old days. He only had a share of work but no rights, so it was also called "sun-bathed son-in-law" or "son-in-law entering the house". Pinghu marriage customs have been included in the third batch of Jiaxing City's intangible cultural heritage list. Information source: Jiaxing Library Information source: Jiaxing Library