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It’s depend which country the Chinese were from. If the Chinese are from China, Taiwan, Western, Indonesia and Vietnam…they eat beef. Chinese from Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Myanmar, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and part of India…they strictly do not take beef because there are mixed teaching of Buddhism in these countries where India has spread that and most of the worship Guan Yin Por Sat ( Godess Of Mercy ). The number 1 rule in Guan Yin Por Sat is to avoid beef as she believe cow did contributed a lot in bringing up human life by acting as an essential machinery for farming, padi field task and providing milk for the poors. So the life of this animal is protected by what they have attribute to the communities to keep the village alive. Pig in the other ways contributed nothing in human everyday live. This is how the belief came from.
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If you mean the proper Buddhist and Chinese Taoist:
Buddhist should be vegetarian, despite allowed to eat any meat under strict circumstances which I forget. Taoist however doesn’t imply such restriction.
If you mean regular people who has Buddhism as their religion in their IC, the ones who pray goddess Guanyin cannot eat beef, while some people can’t (up to any kinds of meat) during the first and fifteenth in the lunar months.
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Taoist are vegetarianism but this isn’t a statement to be vegetarian. A Taoist will eat meat too and Taoist have a varied diet including some meat. However, it’s important to theme to have respect towards their food’s life cycle.
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Buddhists (those who really practise the religion) do not eat beef or any other meat at all…pure vegetarians..
Taoists can eat any meat they want but some of them would go vegetarian on certain days.
There are people who still eat meat even though they worship Kuan Yin (Goddess of Mercy) because it is not a strict rule not to eat meat. Those who are more devout to Her would abstain from all sorts of meat.
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As far as I know, I don’t think Buddhism or Taoism enforce the ban on eating beef the way Islam forbids eating pork. Taking of life, even of animal is anathema to Buddhists, but they still eat pork, chicken, so why not beef? Many Buddhists are vegetarians.
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Taoism In Malaysia
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for the people who worship Quan Yin Pu Sa (Goddess of Merciness),they cant eat beef and lamb! i pray Her but i still eat them. i am quite a modern buddhist. whenever i want to pray Her, i will stop having beef or lamb for 3 days before praying Her!
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As to my knwledge, those who worship God Guan Yin (goddess of mercy) cannot eat beef. hope that helps.
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Strictly speaking no