Prayer text for the chánh tế (main offering) of Đức Bưu village

Tế lễ (communal rituals) of the villages of Thừa Thiên Huế. Xuân tế (Xuân tự, Kỳ an), Thu tế (Thu thường, Thu báo) in the seventh lunar month, Đông chí; lễ kỵ Thành hoàng, Khai canh on the date of each village

  • Huế
  • làng Đức Bưu, Thừa Thiên Huế
  • Village communal-house rites
  • Sacrificial oration
  • Sino-Vietnamese reading

Culture and belief A record of custom.

What this prayer says

The main sacrificial oration of Đức Bưu village, presenting offerings to the deities worshipped at the village communal house and shrine such as the Thành hoàng (village tutelary deity), the founders who cleared and cultivated the land, the first ancestors of the clans, and the deities according to the canonical registers; it is read during the main offering of the whole ceremony.

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

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How it differs from the common version

There is a list of deity tablets of Đức Bưu village and a section "Kỵ" inviting tiên linh, thần kỳ of the four directions, and tiên linh vô tự; the body of the text is short, all in four-character phrases ("Sơn xuyên dựng tú, hà hải dục anh"), praying for scholars, farmers and the four domestic animals.

The common version: Văn chánh tế lễ Thu tế làng An Thành

Offerings and how the rite is done

Offerings, steps and things to avoid for Tế lễ (communal rituals) of the villages of Thừa Thiên Huế

Other texts for Tế lễ (communal rituals) of the villages of Thừa Thiên Huế

The wording is kept exactly as published by the source. The dotted italic words are blanks for you to fill in.

Sources

  • Trích tuyển văn tế làng xã Thừa Thiên Huế, Phần thứ hai: Văn tế trong các lễ cúng theo mùa quanh năm. Chuyên đề của Tạp chí Nghiên cứu và Phát triển, số 7 (141), 2017 (vjol.info.vn)

Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.

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