November 6 to December 6, 2004, the Royal Forest of the Millennium Guangde Temple in Suining City, Sichuan Province, held the Three Great Precepts Ceremony, the major jungle temples, monks and masters gathered about forty people. About forty people gathered at Guangde Temple. According to the Venerable Chang Jing of the temple, the vegetarian food offered to the monks and great masters of the temple, exquisite Chicken, Duck, Fish and Meat, flowers and birds like works of art, are all made of various kinds of soybean products. The colorful and unique "fasting feast" contains a thick historical origin and the rich "vegetarian culture" of Chinese monasteries.

The combination of various types of simulated animal meat made from soybean products into a sumptuous feast, tracing its origins, there is nearly two thousand years of history. "Indian monks Zhufan and Gaya Mo arrived in China to preach and preach, due to the royal belief in Buddhism, there were many royal aristocratic believers followed the Indian monks to become a monk. Thus, Buddhism spread widely in China." Venerable Chang Jing explained the origin of "vegetarian culture". Since the royal family believed in Buddhism, they used professional vegetarian chefs to study vegetarian food, firstly, to worship the two Indian monks, and secondly, to satisfy the monks who came from the royal nobility and followed the monks to become monks. The beginning of China's unique vegetarian culture.

According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Biography of the Western Regions", during the reign of Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty sent Cai Chuan to inquire about Buddhism and Taoism in Tianzhu. Cai Chuan invited two venerable scholars, Zhu Faran and Gayamo, who were the most famous classical scholars in Tianzhu, to come to Luoyang in 67 A.D. to disseminate the Dharma. Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty installed them in the White Horse Temple in Luoyang (named for the white horses they used to carry scriptures to China), and built twenty-four Buddhist temples for their statues. The two Indian monks brought the culture of the Celestial Buddha with them as they preached.

After the introduction of Buddhism into China, first of all, some princes and nobles believed in Buddhism. They ate vegetarian and recited Buddha's name, hoping that in the next life they would be able to go to the Western world of bliss and become immortals, which was even more prevalent in the Tang Dynasty. Guangde Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty during the Dali, since the Dali thirteen years by the Emperor Emperor Dazong Royal name to enjoy the royal bath, the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties for more than 800 years, by the successive emperors eleven Edicts, the imperial grace incremental and achieve great prosperity, become a thousand years of Southwest China's Royal Forest of Zen. According to reports, to the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, Guangde Temple reached "nine places to knock on the bang, three places to eat" (monks with the fasting rules is to knock on the bang to eat), there are more than 3,000 monks. "Lent feast", as the nutritional distribution of science, regulating the physical and mental health of the monks of the nutrients and reception of VIPs when the luxury goods, the formation of this document sub-scale jungle large-scale temple characteristics of the vegetarian feast.

Guangde Temple vegetarian feast, in the past, mainly the high priests and monks of high prestige, the protection of the Dharma priests to eat, but also used to receive VIPs. Monks in the temple on New Year's Day, the Bodhisattva masters Christmas, special anniversaries to eat this "delicious food". The vegetarian culture of Buddhism, replacing meat with vegetarian food, not only embodies the religious characteristics of "our Buddha's compassion" and the promotion of non-killing, but also fulfills the wishes of all beings and helps to regulate their body and mind. From 1985, Guangde Temple vegetarian feast began to open to the public, the four sides of the faithful can enjoy its "vegetarian culture".