Prayer text for the hữu công (those with merit) of Mỹ Lợi village (offering to the vị khai canh and khai khẩn on the full moon of the first lunar month)

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 Mỹ Lợi, Thừa Thiên Huế
  • Village communal-house rites
  • Sacrificial oration
  • Sino-Vietnamese reading

Culture and belief A record of custom.

What this prayer says

The oration for the meritorious of Mỹ Lợi village on the full moon of the first lunar month, presenting offerings to the founders who cleared and cultivated the land and the first ancestors of the clans; it is read during the ceremony honoring the meritorious.

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Sources

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

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