Children Cooking Pao-tzu, anonymous, Yüan dynasty, Hanging scroll. The National Palace Museum, Taiwan.

A screen has been erected in front of a hall as three children gather around hot charcoals where they heat buns together and get ready to eat them as one of them still plays by the side. The hats these children are wearing as well as the thick clothing indicate this is most likely a winter day. Steam rises from the buns heated above the hot coals, symbolizing the “Buns All Together”--suggesting the warmth of a family reunion, hence an auspicious theme. The scent of the buns has also attracted a cat, which looks up at the buns with a face as if asking one of the boys to give it a taste.