At first, meat in Buddhism did not refer to animal food, but some vegetables with pungent smell. There are five kinds of Buddhism: meat, garlic, onion, ginger and garlic moss. Monks in temples are not allowed to eat, to prevent evil spirits from invading each other when chanting. Later, Buddhism stipulated that killing animals was not allowed, and eating animal food was more standardized, so meat was extended to animal food.

Toilet, the word is cursive, which means Toilet used to be a kind of grass.

The specific explanation of "meat" is as follows:

1, chicken, duck, fish, meat or food containing animal oil. Relative to "vegetarian": ~ vegetables.

2. Irritating vegetables such as onions and garlic.

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Specific explanations of some words:

1, meat and vegetables: [hūn cài]?

A dish made of chicken, duck, fish, etc.

2. Five meats: [wǔ hūn]?

Also known as Orfila. Generally speaking, it refers to five kinds of vegetables with strong smell that religious believers are forbidden to eat. For example, Buddhists avoid garlic, small garlic, apricot koji (roots are like radish and taste like garlic), planting onions and wild onions. Taoists avoid leeks, coriander, garlic, mustard and coriander.

3. Meat: [hūn xρng]?

Refers to fish and other foods: the elderly are vegetarian all the year round and don't touch them.

4, open a meat: [kāi hūn]?

(Buddhists and so on. ) lift the vegetarian taboo or start eating meat after the fasting period. It also refers to people who are often vegetarian and occasionally eat meat.

5. Meat oil: [hūn yóu]?

Refers to edible lard.