Prayer text for moving the kitchen (when repairing, relocating the kitchen, or lighting the stove in a new house)
Lễ cúng sửa nhà, sửa bếp (ritual for repairing the house or kitchen). Before major repairs to the house, repairing or moving the kitchen; after the repairs are done there is a lễ tạ (thank-offering ritual)
- 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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Name, address and regional custom
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Offerings and how the rite is done
Other texts for Lễ cúng sửa nhà, sửa bếp (ritual for repairing the house or kitchen)
- Folk practicePrayer text for moving house or major repairs
- Folk practice, Closing thanks and burning of votive paperReverent offering to thank the land of the new house after building (prayer text for the thank-offering after repairing the house)
- Folk practicePrayer text for động thổ (groundbreaking), cất nóc, chuyển nhà (moving house), sửa nhà (house repair)
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Sources
- Lễ cúng chuyển bếp mới (docungtamlinh.com.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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