The engagement ceremony in Hubei has various names, such as "combining eight characters", "passing the slips", "celebrating the festival", "asking for Hong Geng", "Xing Geng" and so on. After the man and woman combine their horoscopes, the man's family will put the Geng Tie in a box, hold it down with hairpins and other jewelry, and send it to the woman's family, which is called "pressing Geng". The girl's family also writes her own Geng Tie, attaches stationery and other items, and sends it to the boy's family, which is called "filling in Geng". The style of filling in the Geng Shu is very particular. The paper used is sixteen-karat hard paper and red posts, and some are made of wax paper with golden flower red background. The two sides are folded in half, with dragons and phoenixes in auspicious patterns printed on them. The top of the post has the universe. Or Qian Zao, Kun Zao, etc. There are eight circles printed below the two lines to fill in the eight characters. On the cover are auspicious words such as "a match made in heaven" or "a match made in heaven" and "the universe is fixed".
In the Gengshu in Huangmei area, there are also