Eastern knowledge, page 4
What is White Tiger in Liu Yao and how is it judged?
Bạch Hổ, one of the six lục thú of Lục Hào: how it is placed by the day stem and what Tăng san bốc dịch says about reading it.
What Stars Make Up the Tử Phủ Vũ Tướng Set in Tử Vi and How Is It Read?
The Tử Phủ Vũ Tướng set in Vietnamese Tử Vi: its four stars, how they are placed, when the pattern forms and how three manuals read it.
In What Order Do You Read a Tử Vi Chart? Mệnh, Thân, Cục, Stars and Periods
How Vietnamese Tử Vi books order a chart reading: Mệnh and Thân first, then Cục, the major stars, the palaces in aspect, auxiliary stars and the periods.
What is Cau Tran in Liu Yao? How to place it by day stem and judge according to Zeng Shan Bu Yi
Câu Trần, one of the six lục thú of Lục Hào: how it is placed by the day stem, the lookup table, and what Tăng san bốc dịch says of it.
What is Chu Tước in Liu Yao and how is it interpreted according to the Zeng Shan Bu Yi?
Chu Tước, one of the six lục thú of Lục Hào: placed by the day stem, linked with speech, letters and disputes in Tăng san bốc dịch.
What Is the Cơ Nguyệt Đồng Lương Formation and Why Do the Books Call It 'Tac Lai Nhan'?
Cơ Nguyệt Đồng Lương in Vietnamese Tử Vi: its four stars, the verse tác lại nhân, and the occupations Tử Vi đẩu số tân biên lists for it.
What Is Cửu Cung: The Nine Squares of Lạc Thư and How Divination Arts Use It
The nine palaces are the nine cells of the Luo Shu, a 3x3 square whose every line totals 15, and the grid used by Huyền Không and Kỳ Môn.
Địa Không and Địa Kiếp in Tử Vi: placement by birth hour, joint palace at Tỵ and Hợi, and đắc địa versus hãm địa
Địa Không and Địa Kiếp in Vietnamese Tử Vi: placed by birth hour from the Hợi palace, sharing a palace at Hợi or Tỵ, with đắc and hãm by each book.
What is giáp cung in Tử Vi and how are the stars placed?
Giáp cung in Tử Vi: why Kình Đà always flank Lộc Tồn, when Tả Hữu and Xương Khúc can flank Mệnh, and how Tử Vi Đẩu Số toàn thư ranks each case.
What Is Hà Lạc Numerology and How Are Hexagrams Cast from Can Chi?
Hà Lạc lý số casts a hexagram from the can chi of a birth date: the number tables, the 25 and 30 reductions, and a worked example from Học Năng's book.
Hám Long Kinh and Nghi Long Kinh: how the two classics attributed to Dương Quân Tùng read dragon veins
Hám Long Kinh and Nghi Long Kinh, traditionally attributed to Dương Quân Tùng: how they read dragon veins, the nine stars, and true versus branch dragons.
In what order do you read a moving line and a changed hexagram in Lục Hào?
Moving lines and the changed hexagram in Lục Hào: how the original hexagram turns into another and in what order Tăng san bốc dịch reads them.
What Are Form and Force in Feng Shui According to the Book of Burial? A Thousand Feet Is Force, a Hundred Feet Is Form
The Táng thư defines force as a thousand feet and form as a hundred: where the mountain's force arrives and the form stops, qi is said to gather.
How to Read Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi Phi Tinh Correctly? Kỵ Nhập, Kỵ Xung, Lộc Kỵ Đồng Cung and Trùng Điệp Kỵ
How the Phi Tinh school reads Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi: Kỵ nhập, Kỵ xung, Lộc and Kỵ in one palace, and stacked Kỵ, following Từ Tăng Sinh's book.
What Is Huyền Vũ in Lục Hào and How Is It Placed by Day Stem?
Huyền Vũ, one of the six lục thú of Lục Hào: how it is placed by the day stem, and where Tăng san bốc dịch mentions it, written there as 元武.
Who was Jing Fang and his contribution to najia and the eight palaces: the founder of Liu Yao
Kinh Phòng (Jing Fang) of the Han: his life in the Book of Han, and the nạp giáp and eight-palace systems set out in Kinh thị Dịch truyện.
What Makes the 2027 Lunar Calendar Special and How to Look Up Dates Correctly
Lunar calendar 2027: year of Đinh Mùi, Tết on Saturday 6 February 2027, no leap month. Key dates, solar terms, and how to look up dates and convert Can Chi.
What Is the Six Clashes of Earthly Branches? The Six Pairs and the 'Clash Opens the Storehouse' of Thìn Tuất Sửu Mùi
The six clashes of the twelve earthly branches, from Tý Ngọ to Tỵ Hợi, and how Tăng san bốc dịch reads clash as dispersal or as opening a storehouse.
How to Read Annual Pillar and Tai Sui in BaZi: What Is Sui Yun Jing Lin
Lưu niên is the stem and branch of the year, Thái Tuế its ruler. How Tam Mệnh Thông Hội reads tuế vận tịnh lâm, phục ngâm and phản ngâm.
What Is Mai Hoa Dịch Số, and Did Thiệu Ung Really Write It?
Mai Hoa Dịch Số builds I Ching hexagrams from numbers, sounds and moments instead of coins. Tradition assigns it to Thiệu Ung, without proof.
What is minh đường in feng shui? Small, middle and large minh đường, inner and outer
Minh đường is the ground in front of a grave or house where energy gathers. How loan đầu books divide it: small, middle, large, inner and outer.
Which Palaces Influence a Palace on the Tử Vi Chart? Tam phương tứ chính, Opposite Palace and Nhị hợp
A palace on a Tử Vi chart is read with its tam hợp, opposite, nhị hợp and flanking palaces. What four Vietnamese Tử Vi books say and where they differ.
What Are the Five Types of Mountains Unsuitable for Burial According to the Zangshu? Tong, Duan, Shi, Guo, Du and the Reasons the Book Gives
The Táng thư names five kinds of mountain unfit for burial: đồng, đoạn, thạch, quá, độc. What the main text says and what its commentary adds.
Five Elements Generating, Controlling, Checking and Transforming: Why Does Excessive Generation Harm, and What Are Counter-Generation and Counter-Control?
Why too much generation harms in the Five Elements, what counter-generation and counter-control mean, and how Uyên Hải Tử Bình states the rule.