Sample prayer text for the groundbreaking of a project (office, factory, public works)
Groundbreaking ceremony for a construction project. Before starting construction of a factory, plant, office, or project, after site clearance; choose date and time according to the age of the project head
- Used across Vietnam
- Folk practice
Culture and belief A record of custom.
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
Bản ngắn, mở bằng "Con lạy chín phương Trời, mười phương Phật" và một câu kính lạy gộp Quan Đương niên, Quan Đương cảnh, Thần linh Thổ địa, Táo quân; xin "cho phép gia chủ chúng con được khởi công xây dựng công trình tại địa chỉ"; không nhắc quan hành khiển của năm, không mời hương linh, không có ô tuổi, không có lời xin bỏ qua khi mạo phạm; kết "Chúng con kính lễ, cúi xin được phù hộ độ trì".
The common version: Prayer text for the groundbreaking and commencement offering (construction project)
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Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Groundbreaking ceremony for a construction project
Other texts for Groundbreaking ceremony for a construction project
- Folk practicePrayer text for the groundbreaking and commencement offering (construction project)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the groundbreaking of a factory and a project
- Folk practicePrayer text for the commencement offering of a project (worshipping the 24 long mạch thần quan, with a passage on borrowing the age)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the lễ Thần linh văn (used when performing groundbreaking; Sino-Vietnamese sounds, with a translation of the meaning)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the động thổ (groundbreaking) offering
- BuddhistPrayer text for the động thổ offering, levelling the land and digging the foundation, in the case of empty land (without chanting sutras)
The wording is kept exactly as published by the source. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.
Sources
- Hướng dẫn cúng động thổ xây nhà (shome.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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