Prayer text for Lễ Chầu Tổ in the traditional style

Lễ Chầu tổ (ceremony of reporting to the ancestors). After the hồi linh (rite of bringing back the soul) according to the prayer-text page; old books and the pagoda place it before the day of the funeral procession

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice
  • Address to the ancestors

Culture and belief A record of custom.

What this prayer says

Traditional prayer to the ancestors in the lễ Chầu Tổ (ceremony of reporting to the ancestors), reporting to the ancestors that the funeral and burial have been completed and the portrait and spirit tablet have been brought back, asking the ancestors to witness and bless the family with harmony; recited before the altar after the lễ hồi linh (rite of calling back the soul).

The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.

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Your regional custom

Showing the version used across Vietnam.

8 more blanks

How it differs from the common version

It keeps the frame of bows of the model-text version, but the body is prose, without the eight four-character lines "Vật vốn nhờ trời, người sinh nhờ Tổ".

The common version: Prayer text for the Chầu Tổ ceremony (Triều Tổ lễ cáo)

Offerings and how the rite is done

Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Lễ Chầu tổ (ceremony of reporting to the ancestors)

Other texts for Lễ Chầu tổ (ceremony of reporting to the ancestors)

Collected text. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.

Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.

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