In addition, some poor and sick girls would be sent to the "Vegetarian Hall" to become nuns with the hope that Buddha would protect them and that they would grow up healthy. It can be said that at that time these nunneries played a role as shelters for unfortunate women.
此外，一些身體幼弱、貧窮的孩子，也會被送到齋堂出家，以求佛祖保佑，健康成長，可以說齋堂在當時也扮演著社會收容的角色。