Khi hương trên bàn thờ chỉ còn lại khoảng 1/4, gia chủ mới bắt đầu thực hiện nghi lễ tạ lễ.
Prayer text for moving the ancestors' altar to a new house (long version)
Bốc bát hương, chuyển bàn thờ (ritual of filling the incense bowl and moving the altar). When moving to a new house, replacing the altar, replacing the incense bowl, or moving the altar to another place in the house; choosing the date and time by custom
- Used across Vietnam
- Folk practice
- Address to the ancestors
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Prayer to ancestors when moving the altar to a new house, asking permission from ancestors and the honored deities to move the incense bowl, portraits, and worship items to the new address, praying for prosperity and peace; recited during the altar-moving ceremony, and when the incense has about 1/4 left, the thank-offering rite is performed.
The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.
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How it differs from the common version
The first three sentences are as in the original text; adds a thanksgiving section: "Tín chủ con tôn kính tiến lễ bái Thánh thần trước linh đài", a promise to keep the offerings on the fifteenth and first days of the lunar month, a request that the Tôn thần bless, and closes with "cùng toàn bộ gia đình xin kính bái".
The common version: Prayer text for moving the altar to a new house
Offerings and how the rite is done
Other texts for Bốc bát hương, chuyển bàn thờ (ritual of filling the incense bowl and moving the altar)
- Folk practice, Address to the ancestorsPrayer text for installing a new incense bowl, addressed to the deities, grandparents and ancestors
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text for installing a new incense bowl, addressed to Thổ Công and Thổ Địa
- Folk practice, Address to the ancestorsPrayer text for changing to a new altar (VTC News)
- Folk practice, Address to the ancestorsPrayer text for moving the altar to a new house
- Folk practice, Address to the ancestorsPrayer text for moving the ancestors' altar to other positions within the house
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text for moving the Thần Tài altar to a new house
- Folk practice, Closing thanks and burning of votive paperPrayer text of thanksgiving for moving the Thần Tài altar
- Buddhist, InvitationRite for taking down the incense bowl
- Buddhist, Installing the incense bowl or altar in its new placePrayer text for the rite of installing the incense bowl (without sutra chanting)
More about Bốc bát hương, chuyển bàn thờ (ritual of filling the incense bowl and moving the altar)
Nhật Nguyệt articles on the rite, the custom and how to prepare.
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Sources
- Văn khấn chuyển bàn thờ về nhà mới (docungtamlinh.com.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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