There is a dietary custom of "fasting" in Han Buddhism, and fasting is vegetarianism, which is a unique system in Han Buddhism. Buddhists in India are forbidden to eat meat, that is, onions, onions, garlic, leeks, canals and other five kinds of vegetables with strong smell and stimulating effect, which are called "five spices" or "five meats". The Ten Chants Law stipulates that monks are forbidden to eat meat, but they can eat "three clean meats" that are "unseen, unheard of and not suspected". During the spread of Buddhism to the East, monks in China adhered to this dietary custom. It was only in the Northern and Southern Dynasties that Liang Wudi, a Buddhist, began to advocate vegetarianism, advocating that monks and nuns abstain from meat, severely punishing monks and nuns who disobeyed the precepts and drank and ate meat, and starting from the upper monks, making vegetarianism a unique diet system for Buddhists in China.

Vegetarianism is compassion and does no harm to all beings.

Lay people try to eat vegetarian food as much as possible when conditions permit.