Sample prayer text for Bà Cô Tổ and Ông Mãnh at home

Cúng Bà Cô Tổ, Ông Mãnh (offering to the ancestral young woman and young man of the family line). On the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month, on the death anniversary of Bà Cô, on the first day of the year; if the date of death is unknown, the family line's ancestor death anniversary is used

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice

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How it differs from the common version

Không câu "Con lạy chín phương Trời", không Đức Di Lặc; kính lạy Hoàng Thiên Hậu Thổ, Bản cảnh Thành hoàng, Táo quân, tổ tiên rồi "các vị Bà Cô Tổ, Ông Mãnh"; không ghi ngày mất, phần mộ; lời cầu hướng về nếp nhà, hoà thuận.

The common version: Prayer text for offering to bà Tổ Cô, number 1

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