The temple hand-made coffee waiters! The monk freshly roasted coffee beans and brewed coffee himself.

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Famous mountains produce good tea, famous temples produce famous tea.

Because most temples were built on famous mountains, in ancient times only temples were best equipped to study and improve the quality of tea. Besides practicing, monks in temples were also responsible for tea planting and tea making. Therefore, when people go to temples, they always think of drinking a good cup of tea, and they think that monks only drink tea.

However, in recent years, in temples in various parts of Asia, some monks have begun to have a strong interest in coffee besides studying and drinking tea, and coffee shops have gradually opened in temple districts.

In 2020, Starbucks, inspired by the Shanguangji Academy, will complement the imported culture with the history of the temple in a 1300-year-old Shanguangji district in Chengye Prefecture, Japan.

The two-story lacquered house blends with the surrounding scenery of the temple. The interior decoration adopts a large number of designs of (hollyhock flowers), corresponding to the temple emblem of Zenkoji. At the same time, the original building beams built in Meiji period are preserved in order to respect local history and tradition in modern and dynamic design.

In 2021, Yongfu Temple, a 1600-year-old ancient temple in Hangzhou, also quietly opened a cafe. Coffee shop opened at the entrance of Yongfu Temple. You need to buy tickets for Lingyin Scenic Spot before you can reach the entrance of Yongfu Temple.

In other words, this cafe only welcomes believers who enter the temple to pray and visit ~ In order to better integrate coffee with traditional culture, the name of the cafe's products is very Zen and calm. For example, latte is called snow, American coffee is called detox, raw coconut latte is called Zen, and so on.

By 2022, a 1700-year-old Longhua Temple in Shanghai will also start selling vegetarian coffee. However, Longhua Temple did not open an independent cafe, but chose to sell vegetarian coffee in a very grounded way.

Worried that everyone would struggle with whether milk was meat or vegetarian (in fact, milk was not divided into meat and vegetables), Longhua Temple also carefully prepared the choice of milk and oat milk, and also took care of lactose intolerance people.

You might think that coffee is sold in temples to attract more young people and create more opportunities for the next generation to learn more about traditional culture. However, the monks in the temple are also fascinated by coffee.

A few days ago, when guests of a variety show in South Korea visited a temple monk, the monk not only made tea for them, but also brewed coffee for them.

"I thought monks only drank tea," said the host of the program. The monk smiled and said,"It seems that you are still living in the past, and monks should keep up with the times." At the same time, he said, the monks bought their own raw beans and then bought baking machines to put in the temple.

From the text, we can see that coffee has gradually become an indispensable social mode in modern times, whether it is a temple, a monk or a visiting guest. Perhaps some friends think that this is a process of imported culture invading traditional culture.

Here is a comment from a netizen:

"The temple was brilliant not just because of faith. Because the monks were intellectuals with higher than average culture before Qing Dynasty, the entrance examination for selecting monks in Ming Dynasty was more difficult than that for scholars. And the temple also gave the poor medical treatment, disaster relief year. In an age of widespread illiteracy, monasteries were cultural leaders. Whether you have hundreds or thousands of years of history today, what matters is whether you are a cultural leader in the present moment.

This culture includes artistic creation such as painting and poetry, and may also be skilled craftsmen such as architectural sculpture, or it may be more extensive... ancient monasteries were full of poets, calligraphers, and great doctors... and it is the same today. People need coffee, sell coffee, sell cultural and creative coffee, sell good and affordable coffee are all understandable... a team that cannot benefit the people will not get the support of the people, let alone trust and admiration. The monasteries nowadays don't have the temple products to survive on, and they also need to create value to maintain the operation of the monasteries…A cup of coffee is good to look at, taste good, and have Zen spirit…"

"Buddhism drinks coffee, don't worry about others."

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