What do you mean by farmers? What is the explanation?
Refers to the tenant farmers who cultivated on the farmland belonging to the temple in Tang Dynasty. He is also a tenant, a guest, a farmer and a landlord. In the Tang Dynasty, although there were monks and nuns farming in temples, most of them were farmers. One of the purposes of abolishing Buddhism in Tang Wuzong and Zhou Shizong was to confiscate the territory of temples. Articles on duties and chores in Preface of Baizhang Clear Rules, Volume 42