Chinese Wedding Bedcloth

This is a piece of cotton material often used as a sheet to sleep on. Many rural households, especially middle aged couples and older have exactly this type of design on their beds. They often received it as part of the bridewealth that the grooms family prepared for the newly wed couple. This exact design is associated with rural style and has in recent years come to fashion as a decorating cloth in city restaurants that offer “home-style cooking” or “rural fare.”