The 1700-year-old Longhua Temple in Shanghai sells "vegetarian coffee"! Ancient temples sell oatmeal milk lattes

It doesn't take a day for the coffee industry to roll well. I don't know since when, the entrants to the coffee track have become more and more extensive and diverse. It is not uncommon for temples to open cafes.

In 2018, before the coffee industry began to roll in, the Great Buddha Temple Cafe was opened in Guangzhou, which is located at the exit of the temple. Coffee shop decorates the Buddhist department, the door is hung with glowing lotus flowers, there is a kind of Buddha light shining feeling, a few pieces of red paper written on the signboard, simple and rough, not affected at all. Milk tea in the store, coffee grinding, health drinks and so on, meet the needs of the people who go to the temple. The coffee shop is closed now. )

In September 2021, a cafe called Cibei was quietly opened in Yongfu Temple in Hangzhou, which is also at the exit of the temple. Coffee drinks in the shop will have their own Zen names, such as mocha coffee called "joy", raw coconut latte called "beginning of Zen", caramel macchiato called "ink white" and so on, attracting many younger generations to sign in.

With the popular trend of "drinking coffee in the pure place of Buddhism, no matter whether others are caffeine", Longhua Temple, an ancient temple with a history of 1,700 years in Shanghai, also sells "vegetarian coffee". But this time the temple did not open a separate cafe, but chose to sell it in a very approachable way-vegetarian coffee in the Suzhai restaurant.

Longhua Temple is the oldest and largest ancient temple in Shanghai. Apart from the Heavenly King Hall, which is different from other temples, the first Hall of Longhua Temple is Maitreya Hall, which highlights the characteristics of Maitreya worshiped by the temple. Longhua Temple's vegetarian noodles and dim sum are very popular. Recently, Longhua Temple has launched "vegetarian coffee", opening a beverage window next to the window that provides vegetarian food, providing Fresh Juice, lemon tea and freshly ground coffee to the public.

Because milk is the product of animals, many people think that milk belongs to meat, but in fact milk is vegetarian. However, in order to avoid people's confusion about whether milk is meat or vegetarian, the "vegetarian coffee" launched by Longhua Temple uses oatmeal milk instead of milk, which is suitable not only for vegetarian friends, but also for lactose intolerant friends. The price is also very close to the people, it can be said to be very cheap! For consumption in the center of Shanghai. For the ancient temple to sell "vegetarian coffee", netizens "do not understand but think it is very powerful" to show that the original coffee can still be vegetarian.

The popularity of coffee culture has made coffee a competitive business, thus attracting people from different fields and industries to get a piece of the coffee. In today's diversified market, as long as the brain is big enough, everything can cross the border, and temples are no exception.

Setting up cafes / selling coffee in temples may be because the temples want to open up new development channels through different markets, arousing high-frequency attention, so that more young people can learn more about the history of temples and cities by clocking in these "eight-pole" combinations.

Seeing that temples began to sell coffee, many netizens said: in hundreds or thousands of years of history, there has not been a cup of imports to attract young people. Is this good or bad for the spread of history and culture?

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