Fasting Grain stands for any type of food products that can be consumed. The Chinese character-pictograph depicts what is 'edible for humans'. In Daoism abstention from grain is also called 'rejection of grains', 'breaking away from grains, 'severing from grains, 'ceasing grains', 'cutting grains' and so on. Even though one does not eat the five grains, one however ingests Qi and energy or power. It is a Daoist belief that abstention from grains is able to kill the 'three corpses',