Prayer text for the full moon of the eighth lunar month (abridged version on Báo Văn Hóa)
Cúng rằm tháng Tám (full moon of the eighth lunar month offering), Tết Trung thu (Mid-Autumn Festival). Full moon of the eighth lunar month; offering to ancestors during the day, displaying a tray to watch the moon in the evening
- Used across Vietnam
- Folk practice
Culture and belief A record of custom.
What this prayer says
Shortened prayer text for the full moon of the eighth lunar month, offering incense, flowers, tea, fruit, and offerings, and asking the deities to witness and bless the family with peace, the living with health, and the deceased with rebirth in a higher realm; recited during the whole offering 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
Six sentences; it merges ancestors, former owners, and later owners into one sentence of reverence; it does not chant Buddhist prayers or invite each deity individually; it includes the plea "người khuất siêu thăng".
The common version: Prayer text for ancestors on Tết Trung thu
Offerings and how the rite is done
Other texts for Cúng rằm tháng Tám (full moon of the eighth lunar month offering), Tết Trung thu (Mid-Autumn Festival)
- Folk practicePrayer text for ancestors on Tết Trung thu
- Family rites (Confucian gia lễ), Address to the ancestorsXuân thu tế tổ tiên văn (in Sino-Vietnamese readings, with a translation)
- Folk practice, Address to the deitiesPrayer text to Thổ Công and the deities (on the first day and the fifteenth day of the lunar month)
More about Cúng rằm tháng Tám (full moon of the eighth lunar month offering), Tết Trung thu (Mid-Autumn Festival)
Nhật Nguyệt articles on the rite, the custom and how to prepare.
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Sources
- Cúng Rằm Trung thu 2025: Giờ đẹp, mâm cúng và văn khấn (baovanhoa.vn)
Part of the open dataset Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng), licensed CC BY 4.0.
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