Compared with plain wine, meat wine refers to "refined" wine, which is also called "steamed wine" as the saying goes. The wine with clear and transparent color and mellow taste is obtained by distillation.

The most authoritative cookbook in the Qing Dynasty, Tiaoding Collection, said that vegetarian wine is "crystal sugar and orange cake boiled in water for vegetarian customers."

In the eighty-second reply, The Journey to the West said: The mousetrap forced Tang Priest to get married, and the Monkey King turned into a worm to peek at it. The mousetrap held a cup of plain wine with Tang Priest, and Tang Priest drank it in fear, but Wukong was thinking, "Master usually eats plain wine made from grapes."

The wine used in temples to worship the Buddha is called vegetarian wine. To distinguish it from meat liquor: liquor, sorghum and other spirits. The practice is to simply filter out the distiller's grains without the "distillation" process, and put the rest of the wine in a pot to boil, so that the wine will not go bad.

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According to Mr. Zhou Yanbi's "Plain Wine and Meat Wine in Journey to the West and Water Margin": In terms of effect, plain wine is a wine that will not make drinkers intoxicated.

In terms of character, it means that the alcohol content is low, and there is no pungent and pungent taste. Wine with this character is often sweet wine. Such as rice wine or wine. Therefore, in terms of taste, wine and glutinous rice wine are both vegetarian wines.

In the 82nd time, there was a saying: "He (the Monkey King) knows that Master usually eats plain wine made of grapes, so teach him to eat it for one hour." It can be seen that Tang Priest also does not avoid alcohol. Wine is low in alcohol, so you won't get drunk. Five precepts of Buddhism: killing, stealing, lewdness, madness and drinking. The first four are fundamental precepts, while alcohol precepts are "cover precepts". Theoretically speaking, it is not a sin to drink only, but alcohol can make people promiscuous, so it is also included in the Five Commandments.

Master Xuanzang in history often drank "Pu Tao pulp" on the road. For example, in the Turkic Yehu Khan's place, Khan's ministers make people drink. Don't serve Master Pu Tao. So I tried to persuade each other. It can be seen that Master Xuanzang drank grape juice.