Located on the borders between the two kingdoms Wu and Chu ( of the Spring and Autumn Period in ancient Chi-na) , Eastern Hubei, is a land of attractive resources and magical power as well as a birth place of creative minds and gifted talents with convenient transportation.The abundant vegetarian food materials provide a solid material basis for the prosperity of Eastern Hubei vegetarian dishes.As the birthplace of Zen Buddhism, Eastern Hubei has full-bodied Buddhist culture;af-fected by the theories of the emperor huang and lao tzu, Eastern Hubei also has extremely deep mass base of Taoism.Uphold-ing religious vegetarianism, believers of Buddhism and Taoism follow out it and make it flourished in daily life.In addition, due to the well developed Academy Culture, the Confucian culture as well as the medical culture in Eastern Hubei, people be-lieve in“ Cultivation and read to bequeath to the family ”, “if a man can eat edible vegetable roots, he can do all sorts of things.” People insist on eating vegetables in order to form self-cultivation and show high ideals, which forms a profound ide-ological and cultural root to make people abstain from meat.The combination of the above three factors contribute to the rise of Eastern Hubei vegetarian dishes, which makes Eastern Hubei vegetarian dishes win a place in the field of Chinese vegetarian dishes.