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Temples can be found everywhere in China. When visiting places with temples, some temples will provide vegetarian food, while others will be free. Of course, there are not many temples that eat vegetarian food for free, and most of them charge. The vegetarian food in the temple is vegetarian, but there is no meat. Don't come to the temple to eat vegetarian food if you want to eat meat. Whether you believe in Buddhism or not, it's best to go to a temple for a vegetarian meal once in your life.

At first, Buddhism did not stipulate that monks should be vegetarian, but eat whatever they have. Why should people in temples be vegetarian? It is said that this is related to an emperor, namely Liang Wudi in the Southern Dynasties. He was a very devout Buddhist and gave his life three times. In 5 1 1 year, Liang Wudi gathered more than 1000 monks and nuns in his palace and published the article "Breaking Wine and Meat", so that all monks and nuns in the world would not eat meat, and offenders would be severely punished.

Buddhism is the mainstream of vegetarianism, and Buddhism advocates not killing. The Buddhist Nirvana Sutra says, "People who eat meat cut off the seeds of great compassion". Even today, China temples still eat vegetarian food, and some temples are open to tourists. Vegetarian meals in temples should not contain irritating materials such as onions, leeks and garlic. Vegetable oil is used for cooking, and the food is light, without eggs and milk.

Many people eat vegetarian food, some out of religious beliefs and some out of living habits. Vegetarianism does not mean vegetarianism. The original meaning of vegetarianism is neatness. Now, more and more people come to the temple to eat vegetarian food. Don't waste food when eating, and don't leave leftovers in the bowl after eating.

There is a dish in the temple-Luohanzhai, which is carefully cooked by 18 kinds of fresh and fragrant raw materials and is the best of vegetarian dishes. Luohanzhai in the Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai is made of Lentinus edodes, mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, straw mushrooms, Nostoc flagelliforme, ginkgo, vegetarian chicken, vegetarian sausage, potatoes, carrots, Sichuan bamboo shoots, winter bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, oil gluten, auricularia auricula and day lily. With so many dishes in it, it looks delicious.

Some people say that eating vegetarian food often can eliminate disasters, believe it or not. However, from a health point of view, eating vegetarian food is beneficial to some extent. When you are a vegetarian, you will make yourself physically and mentally clean, behave appropriately, concentrate, think about hard-won food, review your words and deeds, and learn to be grateful. Eating in temples is precisely to curb our greed and greed, and it also has great enlightenment to our lives.

Eating in a temple is generally not expensive, and a nutritious vegetarian meal is only ten yuan, which is acceptable to many people. Although vegetarianism is free in some monasteries, they also have merit boxes. You can give as much money as you want, and of course you don't have to give it. Temples are places to cultivate blessings, and no one wants to take advantage of them. Most people will still pay.

Go to a vegetarian temple and you will learn a lot. Vegetarianism can not only obtain natural and pure balanced nutrition, but also cultivate a gentle attitude and kind character. In recent years, light vegetarian diet has become the darling of the new era, blowing the wind of returning to nature. From a health point of view, it has gradually divorced from religious vegetarianism.