Prayer text to Thổ Công on the fifteenth and first days of the lunar month

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 at the ceremony on the fifteenth and first days of the lunar month, presenting offerings and asking for the whole family to be peaceful and healthy, for wealth when wealth is sought and fortune when fortune is sought.

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

Adds two lines of homage to the ancestors ("Các cụ Cao Tằng Tổ khảo, Cao Tằng Tổ tỷ", "Thúc bá đệ huynh và các hương linh nội, ngoại"), inviting the ancestral spirits as well; records both the lunar and solar dates; adds "Phục duy cẩn cáo!" before the closing invocation.

The common version: Prayer text to Thổ Công

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Sources

  • Bài văn khấn cúng Thổ Công (dienmayxanh.com)

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

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