Prayer text for the year-end tạ đất offering (ancestors' part)
Lễ tạ đất (thanksgiving rite to the land). The twelfth lunar month before Tết in many places; in Huế, the second and eighth lunar months; in Quảng Nam and Đà Nẵng, at tất niên (year-end) and the beginning of spring
- Used across Vietnam
- Folk practice
- Address to the ancestors
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Prayer for the year-end tạ đất offering, the section for the ancestors, recited when invoking the ancestors, reporting that the old year is ending and the new year is coming, and asking the forebears to continue to protect the descendants in peace and happiness.
The prayer below is kept in Vietnamese, the language it is read aloud in during the rite.
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Offerings and how the rite is done
Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Lễ tạ đất (thanksgiving rite to the land)
Other texts for Lễ tạ đất (thanksgiving rite to the land)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the year-end tạ đất offering
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text for the year-end tạ đất offering (deities' part)
- Folk practicePrayer text for the land offering at the beginning of the year
- BuddhistPrayer text for offering to Ông Công and Ông Táo, year-end ceremony, and tạ đất (without chanting sutras)
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Sources
- Lễ tạ đất cuối năm: lễ vật và văn khấn (voh.com.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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