Monks in the temple usually eat pickles and pickled radishes as porridge in the morning, yellow rice and stewed vegetables at noon, vegetarian meals and fragrant japonica rice on the "Buddha's Birthday Festival" (a Buddhist festival). The kitchen of the temple, called Zhai Kitchen and Kitchen, not only takes care of the meals of monks, but also has many benefactors and pilgrims to solve the problems for monks who come from all over the country. The temple also provides them with tea and meals, which makes Zhai's vegetarian cooking more and more exquisite.

The folk vegetarian custom in China dates back to the pre-Qin period. When Buddhism was introduced into China, Han monks "fasted and became vegetarian". Temple vegetarian cooking has developed, which is unique in people's diet and promotes the folk vegetarian custom.

It refers to the forbidden animal raw materials, the forbidden temple dishes with five pains (namely garlic, garlic, Ferula, Ci Cong and Ming Cong) and the Taoist dishes with five meats (namely leeks, garlic, mustard greens and coriander).

Now it mainly refers to vegetarian dishes made of vegetables (including fungi), fruits and bean products gluten. Make good use of vegetarian soup made of bamboo shoots and bean sprouts to enhance the flavor.

China vegetarian dishes are an important part of China's diet, which are characterized by freshness, exquisite materials selection, exquisite skills, various varieties and unique flavor.

Vegetarian dishes usually refer to dishes cooked with vegetable oil, vegetables, bean products, gluten, bamboo shoots, fungi, algae and dried and fresh fruits.

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One of the famous vegetarian dishes in the temple, "Luohanzhai", is made of eighteen kinds of raw materials, which means piety to the eighteen arhats of Buddhism. The Luohan cuisine in Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple is made of mushrooms, Tricholoma, shiitake mushrooms, freshly ground mushrooms, straw mushrooms, Nostoc flagelliforme, Ginkgo biloba, vegetarian chicken, vegetarian sausage, potatoes, carrots, Sichuan bamboo shoots, winter bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, oil gluten, auricularia auricula and day lily with seasonings. Rich in appearance and fresh to eat.

Luohanzhai is originally a temple dish. At first, it was relatively simple, and the ingredients were cooked and eaten together. Later, due to the grand Buddhist activities, monks gave lectures, Shami was ordained, and lay people worshipped Buddha. It is often monks, monks and lay people who pay for fasting for the public, and the production is gradually enriched and refined. According to the amount of money, it is divided into Thousand Monks Zhai, Shang Tang Zhai, Auspicious Zhai or Ruyi Zhai.

After this dish spread to vegetarian restaurants in the city, it was further improved and perfected, and it was divided into three types: upper fasting and lower fasting, as well as upper fasting, middle fasting and lower fasting. Its materials vary from place to place. But generally not less than ten kinds. The production methods are also different, but they all have the characteristics of salty, fragrant and elegant.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Luohanzhai

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-vegetarian