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Ancient monks didn't touch meat, which originally meant why monks didn't touch meat.
1. Ancient monks didn't touch meat, which originally meant vegetables with a strong smell.

2, strong vegetables and other foods, such as onions, garlic, leeks, onions and so on. "fishy" refers to meat. Ancient monks just didn't eat "meat", not meat, because there was still a big difference between meat and meat. The folk prescription of meat is grass prefix, which represents a plant. In fact, it refers to some plants with pungent smell, such as leeks, garlic, green onions and leeks. Because eating these things in your mouth will produce a great smell and it will be unsightly to speak. Moreover, Buddhism believes that having such a smell in the mouth is disrespectful to all beings and to the Buddha, so not only monks don't eat meat, but even many people in the upper class don't eat meat for image.