Buddhists call onions, garlic, leeks, onions and other spices five meats, not vegetarian.

Speaking of "vegetarian diet" and "vegetarian diet", they are not the same thing. Eating vegetarian food means that ordinary people don't eat animal food in their daily diet, but eating vegetarian food originally refers to the practice of Buddhist disciples, which originated from the introduction of Buddhism into China during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. "Zhai" is the food that Buddhist disciples eat before noon. In addition to animal food, it also includes the so-called "small five meats" or "five spices" (garlic, small garlic, Ferula, chives and scallions). Buddhism believes that you should fast in the afternoon, otherwise it will not be clean. With the rapid development of Buddhism at that time, from eating "fast" to not eating animal food became a natural precept for Han Buddhists, and eating "fast" and "vegetarian" became the same meaning.