Prayer text for the groundbreaking of a factory and a project
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
Mở bằng "Con lạy chín phương trời, mười phương chư Phật", lạy Hoàng Thiên Hậu Thổ rồi một câu gộp Quan Đương niên, Quan Đương cảnh, Thổ Công, Táo Quân; xin "được động thổ khởi công xây dựng công trình tại mảnh đất này" mà không có ô địa chỉ công trình; cầu cho "mọi người tham gia xây dựng được bình an, công trình hoàn thành mỹ mãn"; không có câu kết riêng, niệm Phật ngay sau lời cầu.
The common version: Prayer text for the groundbreaking and commencement offering (construction project)
Offerings and how the rite is done
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 practiceSample prayer text for the groundbreaking of a project (office, factory, public works)
- 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
- Cách chuẩn bị mâm cúng động thổ nhà xưởng và công trình xây dựng (andole.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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