Migration and social differentiation

business," Sun remembered. "Shortly after the meeting, the old lady asked for a marriage proposal with her daughter through a match maker." On hearing that, Sun was a little shocked since he thought, "I could not marry her daughter because her family was rich. I was too poor to afford the brideprice." The daughter was also kind of reluctant to marry him because she said, "If I married him, I would have to learn how to make sunhats. But I had no idea how to make them." Nonetheless, the mother answered, "He is a technician. You will not worry about money if you marry him." Finally, Sun borrowed 160 yen, which was the brideprice, from his friends to marry his wife in 1936. "I was too poor to afford to buy a bed at that time. We were sleeping on a bed made from many boxes on our wedding night," he recalled.