Prayer text to Thổ Công

Offering to Thổ Công and the household deities. On sóc vọng days (the first day and the fifteenth day of the lunar month), on giỗ and Tết days; the largest ceremony is on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month

  • Used across Vietnam
  • Folk practice

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What this prayer says

Prayer text to Thổ Công (Earth God of the house) and the household deities, recited during the whole offering ceremony, presenting incense, flowers and offerings and asking the deities to bless the whole family with peace and prosperity and all things well.

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

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Sources

  • Văn khấn Thổ công (vankhan.vn)

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

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