Prayer text for the Lập xuân offering outdoors

Cúng tiết Lập xuân (offering on the Lập xuân solar term). Ngày Lập xuân, khoảng 4 hoặc 5 tháng 2 dương lịch

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice
  • Outdoor offering

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What this prayer says

Prayer text for the Lập xuân (Beginning of Spring) offering outdoors, recited at the moment of transition between the Đại Hàn (Great Cold) and Lập xuân solar terms; the tín chủ (the person making the offering) presents offerings to Thần Nông đại đế (the Great Emperor of Agriculture), the Nhị Thập Tứ Phúc khí tiết thần quan (the deities of the twenty-four solar terms), the Cửu tinh thần quan (the nine star deities) and the deities governing the area, asking for a healthy new year, smooth work, and freedom from misfortune in all four seasons.

The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.

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Sources

  • 4/2 là ngày Lập Xuân cần lưu ý gì, văn khấn cúng Lập Xuân 2026 (vietbao.vn)
  • Văn khấn tiết lập xuân 2024 (hoatieu.vn)

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