Zhai cuisine, also known as "temple cuisine" and "vegetarian cuisine", was originally a vegetarian dish cooked by Taoists and Buddhists, with three mushrooms, sixty-two, fruits, vegetables and bean products as the main raw materials, so it was also called "temple cuisine" and "vegetarian cuisine".

Lily, fungus, mushrooms, winter flour, potatoes, red dates and other "six vegetarian dishes" have the meaning of Jin Mu's five elements of fire, water and soil. There are also twelve bowls, twenty-four bowls or thirty-six bowls of vegetable bowls, sugar towers, sugar lamps and so on, which are made of dry materials such as Chinese cabbage, peas, mung beans, bean wheels, gluten and hemp.