The 92-year-old woman is embroidering a marriage certificate for her granddaughter. Screeenshot from The Paper.

Recently, a video of a 92-year-old woman in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province, embroidering a marriage certificate for her granddaughter went viral on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform. 

Marriage certificates began to appear in China since the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046BC-771BC). Traditional marriage certificates are written expressions corresponding to the "six etiquettes," also known as the rites, which are not completed at one time. "Six etiquettes" refer to the whole marriage process from the proposal to the completion of the marriage. And it carries the best wishes from the older generation to the engaged couple. Netizens have expressed admiration after seeing the marriage certificate embroidered by the old woman, in which every needle and every thread shows her love for her granddaughter. Many think that such certificates should be handed down from generation to generation as an heirloom.

The forms of marriage certificates have changed over the past 3,000 years, but the love and the promise of a happy married life remain the same.