Prayer text for offering to ancestors on Tết calling the buffalo's soul on the 6th day of the 6th lunar month (in Tày, with the source's translation)

Lễ cúng hồn trâu (buffalo soul offering rite) of the Tày and Nùng people. The 6th day of the 6th lunar month (Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn); full moon of the seventh lunar month (Nghĩa Đô, Lào Cai)

  • Northeast
  • Tày, Nùng
  • Cao Bằng
  • Folk practice
  • Address to the ancestors

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What this prayer says

The ancestors prayer text for the buffalo Tết on the 6th day of the 6th lunar month in the Tày language, offering a drake, buffalo-horn cakes made of fragrant sticky rice, white noodles and various fruits, inviting the grandparents and ancestors to eat and then asking them to protect the young buffaloes and calves from ticks, leeches, mosquitoes and flies and to keep them healthy and safe.

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