Prayer text for the year-end tạ đất offering

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

Culture and belief A record of custom.

What this prayer says

Prayer for the year-end tạ đất (thanksgiving to the land deities) offering, recited for the whole ceremony to report to the deities governing the land and to the ancestors about the thanksgiving rite, asking them to receive the offerings and continue to protect the family in peaceful residence, good health, and increasing wealth and fortune.

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

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Sources

  • Văn khấn cúng tạ đất cuối năm (phatgiao.org.vn)
  • Bài văn khấn cúng đất đai (docungtamlinh.com.vn)

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