Why don't Buddhists eat onion, ginger and garlic?

Onion, ginger and garlic are five kinds of meat among Buddhists, and Buddhists don't eat meat dishes.

Meat in Buddhism does not refer to chicken, duck, fish, etc. , but garlic, young garlic and other stimulating vegetables. Five kinds of poultry meat in Buddhism are garlic, garlic head, canal, planting onion and green onion; Five kinds of meat make people angry; Cooked food is obscene and makes people want to eat more. In Southern Buddhism today, even some people who believe in Hinayana Buddhism can still eat some meat.

Onion, ginger and garlic are addictive and irresistible. Therefore, it is stipulated that onions, ginger, garlic and peppers are not allowed to eat, otherwise they will become addicted, and the more you eat, the more you will never forget. This is also called holding and needs to be put down. Moreover, food was particularly scarce at that time, but mainly eating meat for a living. Buddhism believes that onion, ginger and garlic are all meat-like foods, so we must eat less or not, and don't indulge in this smelly food, so we decide that garlic is meat-like.

Extended data:

Five meats are introduced in detail:

1, garlic: sad and irritable, easy to be sloppy when eating too much.

2, onions: kidney injury consumes water and gas, eating too much emotional instability, panic.

3, leek: liver injury is angry, liver fire is strong, easy to get angry.

4. [xiè] Injured spleen is trapped in rustic atmosphere, spleen and pancreas are not smooth, and it is often troubled and depressed.

5, Xingqu: hurting the lungs and covering up the golden gas, lung fatigue often holds a pessimistic attitude.

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