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.

In addition to the six-day fast, dry ingredients such as Chinese cabbage, peas, mung beans, bean wheels, gluten and hemp are added to form twelve bowls, twenty-four bowls or thirty-six bowls of vegetable bowls, as well as sugar towers and sugar lamps.

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".