Prayer text asking to return to the hometown for Tết (full traditional version)
Offering to report absence from home during Tết. One or two days before leaving home, or on the morning of departure, in the twelfth lunar month
- Used across Vietnam
- Folk practice
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What this prayer says
The full traditional prayer text used when the family returns to the hometown for Tết, announcing to Thành hoàng (village tutelary deity), Thổ Địa (Earth God), Táo quân (Kitchen Gods) and ancestors that the house will be temporarily empty during Tết, asking to invite the ancestral spirits to return to the hometown for the family reunion and praying for a safe journey. It is recited before the altar during the whole ceremony one or two days before leaving the house or on the morning of departure, in the twelfth lunar month.
The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.
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Sources
- Văn khấn xin về quê ăn Tết 2026 (baohatinh.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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