The chamber pot could not be carried on the dowry table. It is called “happy pot” or “offspring pot” to express good wishes to the couple and their children. Inside it people often put some dried jujubes, peanuts, melon seeds, red half-boiled eggs etc. respectable families might wrap it up in a large piece of red cloth, and then ask a pretty boy to carry it on his back to go along with the dowry-bearing procession. After reaching the bridegroom’s family, people dealt with the chamber pot in different ways according to different customs.

In some areas, the bridegroom’s family would ask a healthy and lively boy to open the cover to move the things from inside, and then the boy would urinate into it to ensure that the firstborn would be a son. In other areas, on the wedding night, the woman serving as the maid of honor would pour out the stuff in the chamber pot and say some congratulatory words at the same time. In some areas, people used a wooden basin as their trousseaux. They wrapped it up with red paper, and sealed it with colored threads. The sealed basin would not be opened until the first son was born to the family and the baby would be bathed in it, it was believed that in doing so the child would grow happily and healthily. Chamber pots and wooden basins were common trousseaux in most parts of China.