Prayer for the giỗ tổ dòng họ (clan ancestor death anniversary)

Giỗ tổ dòng họ (clan ancestor death anniversary), tế tổ (ancestor sacrifice) at the clan temple. The death anniversary of the founding ancestor, which is also the joint death anniversary of the forebears; each clan has its own day. In Nam Bộ there is the custom of cúng việc lề (offering for the communal affair) around Tết; in the Quảng Trạch and Ba Đồn areas, chạp mả (grave-tending) is held in the twelfth lunar month

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice
  • Sacrificial oration

Culture and belief A record of custom.

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How it differs from the common version

How this text differs from the original: a parallel-prose văn tế (sacrificial oration) read at the clan head's house: it opens with the national name, province, ward; it invites the Thượng tổ (founding ancestor) and the ancestral spirits by branch; sections "Lẽ tự nhiên", "Mừng hôm nay", "Nhớ thuở xưa"; it has the line "Trên nhờ ơn Đảng, Bác Hồ"; it ends "Giãi tấm lòng thành, cúi xin thấu tỏ. Cẩn cáo!". No Buddhist chanting.

The common version: Văn khấn nôm (vernacular prayer text) at the clan temple

Other texts for Giỗ tổ dòng họ (clan ancestor death anniversary), tế tổ (ancestor sacrifice) at the clan temple

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Sources

  • Văn khấn nhà thờ họ (hoatieu.vn)

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

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