Introduction of temple food
Temple food, also known as vegetarian food. That is, vegetarian dishes such as Buddhism and Taoism. Both Buddhism and Taoism once flourished in the history of China. Buddhism, in particular, was introduced to China at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, which was strongly advocated by the ruling class and spread widely, with monasteries all over the country. Many Buddhist temples occupy a lot of temple property. Although their abbots and elders fasted and did not eat meat, they paid great attention to vegetarian food, which resulted in temple dishes. Now people are familiar with "vegetarian chicken", "vegetarian duck", "vegetarian ham" and so on, as well as "vegetarian feast", which comes from temple dishes.