Editing Animal sacrifice (section)

==== Modern-day China ====
[[Buddhism]] prohibits all forms of [[Five precepts|killing]], [[Śramaṇa|rituals, sacrifices and worship]] and [[Taoism]] generally prohibit killing of animals.<ref>[http://a.bonze.cn/wlsjwz/ygbj/271.htm 办丧事或祭祀祖先可以杀生吗] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331092215/http://a.bonze.cn/wlsjwz/ygbj/271.htm |date=March 31, 2012 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.gzcyg.com/cygarticle.aspx?menuid=1334&tab=tab_News&tabid=19863 齋醮略談] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306132041/http://www.gzcyg.com/cygarticle.aspx?menuid=1334&tab=tab_News&tabid=19863 |date=March 6, 2016 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.daoist.org/culture/history/culture_history_005.htm 符籙齋醮] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422221750/http://www.daoist.org/culture/history/culture_history_005.htm |date=April 22, 2010 }}</ref> In [[Kaohsiung]], [[Taiwan]], animal sacrifices are banned in Taoist temples.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bbs3.nsysu.edu.tw/txtVersion/boards/maev91/M.1070835450.A.html|title=中山大學 West BBS-西子灣站 / 分類佈告 / maev91 / 高雄地名知多少|access-date=2011-08-28|archive-date=2011-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812064824/http://bbs3.nsysu.edu.tw/txtVersion/boards/maev91/M.1070835450.A.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Ghost Festival Ritual（Taoyuan）Ⅱ.jpg|thumb|180px|left|A sacrificed pig on the altar in the ghost festival.]][[File:Dummy-pig offering,puli,nantou,taiwan.jpg|thumb|180px|right|A dummy pig made of packs of noodles.]]

Some animal offerings, such as fowl, pigs, goats, fish, or other livestock, are accepted in some Taoism sects and beliefs in [[Chinese folk religion]]. The offerings would be placed at the altar or the temple after being slaughtered. The amount sacrificed is up to the worshippers, who can eat all of the offerings after the rite. In folk religion some regions believe that high-status deities prefer vegetarian food more, while ghosts, low-status gods, and other unknown supernatural spirits like meat. Therefore, whole pigs, whole goats, whole chickens, and whole ducks will be sacrificed in the [[ghost festival]]. Some vegetarian believers make dummy pigs or dummy goats from vegetarian food like bread or rice for sacrifice.
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lamchun.com/web-borrow.htm|title=林真-馬年運程, 馬年運氣書,風水、掌相、看相、八字、命理、算命}}</ref><ref>[http://www.kaifook.com.hk/special/sp005.htm 衣紙2] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313113038/http://www.kaifook.com.hk/special/sp005.htm |date=March 13, 2012 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.twtaoism.net/php/4-6show.php?teaching_id=83 道教拜神用品] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705030815/http://www.twtaoism.net/php/4-6show.php?teaching_id=83 |date=July 5, 2007 }}</ref>