The most important rule of China monks' diet is "fasting", that is, vegetarianism. beg

Eat, in Indian Buddhism, the original meaning of fasting in Japan and China is "don't eat after noon" in advance.

Eating is fasting. However, during the development of Buddhism in China, the content of fasting gradually changed from abstinence to abstinence.

Eating after noon is the main diet, which has evolved into a vegetarian diet, that is, not eating fish and other meat.

Suspicious. This is unique in the diet of monks in China.

Primitive Buddhism did not prohibit eating fish. In ancient India, monks

Our food is divided into five kinds of "eating" and five kinds of "chewing". Five "positive foods"

Refers to cooked mother rice, wheat bean rice, fried rice noodles or flour, cakes and meat. Five "chews"

"Eating" refers to vegetables and fruits that can be eaten raw. Positive food is the staple food, and it is also the five staple foods.

Including meat. Devadatta, the cousin of Sakyamuni, opposed the Buddha. He objected to the explanation.

One of the reasons for Sakyamuni is that Sakyamuni and his disciples used things like cheese.

Dairy products and fish are considered to take food from infants and young animals and kill animals.

Move it. All these records show that Buddhism does not prohibit eating fish in India. but

According to another Buddhist canon (Ten Odes), monks are only allowed to eat three kinds of clean meat:

That is, I didn't kill myself, I didn't see others kill me, and I didn't hear it with my own eyes.

People kill the meat of these three kinds of livestock.

After Buddhism was introduced into China, monks were initially allowed to eat meat. To the south

In Liang Wudi's time, it was very common for monks in China to eat fish. Liang Wudi

Very devout to Buddhism. He reported reincarnation according to Buddhist scriptures and Buddhism.

On, he wrote four articles on "breaking wine and meat" and proposed that monks and nuns should not "eat one".

The idea of cutting meat. He thinks that monks and nuns are addicted to wine and meat, which is "against the teaching of teachers"; It is "white"

If you can't do it well, you will enlarge all evil "; It is "against scripture"; It means "wear Tathagata clothes, no"

If you come "; It is the behavior of a fake monk who is no different from a thief. He took the emperor's

Authorities ordered monks and nuns to drink and eat meat. To this end, he called 1448 monks and nuns.

Meet at the "Fengzhuang Gate" of the Palace, and visit the venue in person, so that the monks can read "Soft Words of Breaking Wine".

The article reveals all kinds of misdeeds of monks eating fish and drinking, and says that they will drink more in the future.

Anyone who eats meat with wine will be treated according to the king's law. Say, put those old ones,

Monks with many disciples operate. Because it's no use punishing an unknown monk,

Only by punishing the eminent monks can we achieve the effect of "shocking the audience".

It is under this coercive measure that the vegetarian diet of Han monks in China was formed.

System, and has been adhered to so far. To be clear, the vegetarian system is only moderate.

Monks of China and Han nationality are unique to all countries in the world, including Mongolians, Tibetans and Dai people in China.

Buddhist monks of ethnic minorities are allowed to eat meat.

Monks in China are vegetarian, not only don't eat fish, but also don't eat "five spices"

Dish ",which Buddhism calls" five meats ",refers to five kinds of vegetables with spicy smell, namely onions.

Garlic, leek, onion, canal. Shepherd's purse is similar to leek, and the star song is said to grow in.

Aceracea tastes like garlic, but there is nothing in it. Why not eat these five dishes? Buddhist scripture

Technically, these five kinds of dishes are very smelly, and people who eat them can even say that.

When giving lectures, the Ten Immortals will hate the stink and stay away from it.