A Brief Introduction to Lent in Zhai Guanyin

The common fasting days in Buddhism are: Buddha and Bodhisattva's Christmas (lunar calendar), October fasting, June fasting and Guanyin fasting.

Breakfast: a vegetarian meal in the morning.

Shuowangzhai: the first and fifteenth day of the first month.

Ramadan: The first month, May and September.

Liuzhai: (every month) the eighth, fourteenth, fifteenth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth and thirtieth day (from the 28th day of the first month).

Lent: the first day, the eighth day, the fourteenth day, the fifteenth day, the eighteenth day, the twenty-third day, the twenty-fourth day, the twenty-eighth day, the twenty-ninth day and the thirtieth day (counting from the 27th of that month).

Zhai Guanyin: The eighth day of the first month, the seventh day of February, the ninth day, the nineteenth day, the third day of March, the sixth day, the thirteenth day, the twenty-second day of April, the seventeenth day of May, the sixteenth day of June, the eighteenth day, the nineteenth day and the twenty-third day. Be vegetarian in February, June, September, and from the first day to the nineteenth day. It is said that February 19 is Guanyin's birthday, and June is the day when Bodhisattva crosses the sea. It will definitely rain that day. September 19th is the day when Guanyin Bodhisattva became a monk in Xiangshan. This sentence probably comes from the Xiangshan scroll circulated by the people, and good women are persistent.