Eastern knowledge, page 15
The Twenty-Four Solar Terms: Why the Solar Calendar Lives Inside the Lunar Almanac, and Why It Ties to Farming
The 24 solar terms are seasonal markers tied to Earth's orbit around the Sun, used as a farming guide in the lunar almanac.
The Vietnamese Lunar Calendar Is Actually a Lunisolar Calendar: Why the Shortened Name 'Lunar Calendar' Causes Misunderstanding
The Vietnamese lunar calendar is actually a lunisolar calendar combining the moon's phases and Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Reading the Five Features Together: Why Traditional Physiognomy Does Not Judge a Single Feature in Isolation
A practical guide to reading the Five Features in Eastern physiognomy: how to observe each feature, pair them in correlation, and avoid one-sided conclusions.
The Lunar Leap Month: Why It Exists, How It Is Calculated, and Why One Lunar Day in a Leap Year Corresponds to Two Solar Days
How a lunar leap month is determined, why leap years exist, and why one lunar day in a leap year corresponds to two solar days.
What is 24 Sơn Hướng?
24 Sơn Hướng is a system of 24 positions on the feng shui compass, each spanning 15 degrees, used to determine the orientation of houses and graves.
What is Bát Quái?
Bát Quái are the eight basic trigrams of the I Ching, each made of three yin or yang lines that symbolize eight natural phenomena.
What is Bát Trạch?
Bát Trạch (Eight Mansions) sorts houses into eight types by the eight trigrams and pairs them with the owner's trigram number.
What is Bát Tự?
BaZi, or Four Pillars, is a traditional destiny analysis system built on the birth year, month, day, and hour, each with a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch.
What is Can Chi?
Can Chi pairs the Ten Heavenly Stems with the Twelve Earthly Branches to record years, months, days and hours in the traditional East Asian calendar.
What is Chính tinh?
Chinh tinh are the 14 core stars of a Tử Vi chart, including Tử Vi, Thiên Phủ and Thái Dương, and they shape each palace's personality.
What is Cung Mệnh?
Cung Mệnh (命宮, Mệnh Palace) is the primary palace in a Tử Vi chart, reflecting character, temperament, inner nature, and potential life direction.
What is Cung Thân?
Cung Thân is a special palace in Vietnamese Tử Vi astrology, placed by birth month and hour rather than fixed, reflecting inner tendencies and later life.
What is Đông Tứ Trạch?
Đông Tứ Trạch is a group of four dwelling orientations (Kham, Chan, Ly, Ton) in Bát Trạch feng shui, tied to people of Đông Tứ Mệnh.
What is Dụng Thần?
Dụng Thần is the element among the Five Elements most needed to balance and remedy a Four Pillars chart, helping it reach harmony in BaZi theory.
What is Giờ hoàng đạo?
Giờ hoàng đạo are six two-hour slots a day, based on the twelve Earthly Branches and seen in folk practice as favorable for starting important work.
What is Hào?
A yao (爻) is the basic unit of a hexagram in the I Ching, made of two line types, yin and yang, with six yao stacked bottom to top.
What is Huyền Không Phi Tinh?
Xuan Kong Flying Stars is a school of feng shui that uses the nine stars flying through time and directions to assess auspiciousness for dwellings and graves.
What is Lục Hại?
Lục Hại is six pairs of Earthly Branches in latent conflict in the 12 zodiac system, such as Rat Goat and Ox Horse, often consulted for marriage and business.
What is Lục Thập Hoa Giáp?
The Sixty Jiazi is a cycle of 60 sexagenary combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches used to number years, months, days and hours.
What is Nạp Âm?
Nạp Âm assigns names and Five Elements to each pair of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches in the Sixty Jiazi cycle, used to interpret destiny and fortune.
What is Ngũ Hành?
Ngũ Hành, the Five Elements, is a system of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth in Eastern philosophy, explaining change through generation and overcoming.
What is Nhân Tướng Học?
Physiognomy is the traditional Eastern practice of observing facial features, hands, and body to infer personality and destiny, serving as a reference.
What is Sát Phá Lang?
Sát Phá Lang names the triad of Thất Sát, Phá Quân and Tham Lang in Tử Vi astrology, symbolizing strong character and a pioneering spirit.
What is Tam Hợp?
Tam Hợp (三合) is a group of three Earthly Branches spaced four positions apart, forming one of four elemental combinations.