Triêu tịch văn (sacrificial oration for the morning and evening rice offering while the coffin is still kept at home)
Lễ Chúc thực (the rite of offering rice to the newly deceased). Every day, two times, morning and evening, from when the coffin is still at home until the 100th-day ceremony (at pagodas: until 49 days)
- Southern Vietnam (Nam Bộ, no finer detail in the source)
- Family rites (Confucian gia lễ)
- Sacrificial oration
- Sino-Vietnamese reading
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Sacrificial oration for the morning and evening rice offerings to the newly deceased while the coffin is still kept at home, lamenting that the father (mother) has left the world, now presenting fine rice according to ritual and asking the deceased to partake. Recited throughout the chúc thực rite, twice a day in the morning and evening.
The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.
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This text is the version from the South.
How it differs from the common version
The Hán Việt sacrificial oration is very short in reading (three lines), opening "Ô hô! Thống vi phụ thân (mẫu thân) yêm khí trần thế", ending "Phục duy thượng hưởng"; no Buddha recitation, no bowing to deities, no declaration of name, age, or date.
The common version: Lễ Triệu tịch Điện văn (offering rice during the 100 days)
Offerings and how the rite is done
Other texts for Lễ Chúc thực (the rite of offering rice to the newly deceased)
The wording is kept exactly as published by the source. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.
Sources
- Lý Việt Dũng, Nghi thức và văn cúng đám tang ở Nam Bộ, Tạp chí Nghiên cứu và Phát triển, số 2 (73), 2009 (vjol.info.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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