Prayer text for the chánh tế (main offering) at the Thu tế (autumn offering) of An Phú 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 An Phú, 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 in the Thu tế (autumn offering) of An Phú 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

The full text: it opens by listing the date, the place name of Vĩnh Trị tổng, the tế chủ, the line "Cẩn dĩ", and forty rows of deity tablets of An Phú village; the body of the text opens "Phò dư dục tú, hà nhạc chung kỳ"; there is the line "Tư nhân xuân thủ/ thu tế" for use in the two offering seasons.

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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