(Tụng. Mõ, chuông)
(Chủ sám)
(Hạ lễ)
Prayer text for the khai xuân offering at the beginning of the year (without chanting sutras)
Cúng khai xuân, mở hàng đầu năm (spring-opening offering and first-day-of-year shop-opening offering). The day for the first shop opening of the year is chosen by the head of the household within the first lunar month; the khai hạ (lowering the nêu pole) offering is on the 7th day of the first lunar month
- Used across Vietnam
- Buddhist
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Prayer for the spring opening at the start of the year without sutra chanting, recited during the whole ceremony; the disciple respectfully addresses the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and the noble Sangha, invites heavenly beings, spirits and related wandering spirits to the ceremony, offers pure food and dedicates merit for peace and safety for the family, office or shop.
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
How this text differs from the original: it refers to itself as "đệ tử"; "xin tác lễ khai xuân" for the family, office or shop; it invokes the heavenly beings, the deities and the spirits connected with the land; it includes phát tâm công đức (raising the mind of merit), chân ngôn (mantra) and hồi hướng (dedication of merit); it does not pay homage to Hành khiển, Thành hoàng or Tài thần.
The common version: Prayer text for khai xuân, prayer text for the first shop opening of the year
Offerings and how the rite is done
Other texts for Cúng khai xuân, mở hàng đầu năm (spring-opening offering and first-day-of-year shop-opening offering)
- Folk practicePrayer text for khai xuân, prayer text for the first shop opening of the year
- Folk practice, At the altar of the God of Wealth and the Earth GodPrayer text for the first shop opening of the year at the Thần Tài altar
- Folk practicePrayer text for hóa vàng on the 3rd day of Tết, according to Văn khấn cổ truyền Việt Nam (Traditional Vietnamese Prayer Texts)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the thank-offering rite (the version "Kính lạy... Cẩn cáo", hóa vàng rite, Tết Khai hạ)
- Folk practicePrayer text for offering to Ông Táo on the 7th of the first lunar month (lễ khai hạ, offered together with the ancestors and the deities)
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Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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