In "Reunion around the stove", there is such a description of food: On New Year's Eve, every family will get together and have a big New Year's Eve dinner. Northerners like to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival, while southerners like to eat rich meals to celebrate the Spring Festival. In Fujian, many places have the custom of making rice cakes. Eating a piece of rice cake indicates that everything will be "tall" in the coming year, the age will be one year higher, the ability to understand things will be higher, the luck of the family will be higher, the fortune will roll in, and the rice cake will be "tall". In Putian, every household also makes a folk food "Red Ball", which uses glutinous rice flour as skin, mung bean or glutinous rice mixed sugar as stuffing, and then paints the upward side with red. After steaming, the color is bright red, sweet and soft, which indicates that the coming year will be prosperous, round and round, and the whole family will be happy. In southern Fujian, there is a kind of food stuffed with tofu bags called "fruit roots". The stuffing is made of water chestnut, bean powder, peanuts, pork, etc. In northern Fujian, we eat snacks such as rice cakes, taro dumplings, steamed dumplings and winter fruits, drink winter wine, and eat bacon and dried salted duck.
"Reunion around the stove" is a modern essay, which mainly describes the customs and delicacies of New Year's Eve dinner in Fujian, southern Fujian and northern Fujian.