The Craft of Bronze Casting for Worship: A Century-Old Flame in Lộng Thượng, Y Yen, and Đại Bái
Bronze casting for worship in Lộng Thượng, Y Yen and Đại Bái: how three villages keep a centuries-old craft alive against industrial pressure.
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Which markets consume Đại Bái bronze products?
Besides the domestic market, Đại Bái products are exported to countries such as Japan, South Korea, and the EU. The village currently has about 300 cooperatives, enterprises and 350 craft households, with 15 large enterprises operating effectively.
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Đại Bái bronze casting village - the cradle of bronze craft in Northern Vietnam
Đại Bái village in Bắc Ninh is the cradle of bronze casting in Northern Vietnam, with about 1000 years of history and refined engraving art.
What Traditional Crafts Does Vietnam Have?
Vietnam's traditional crafts include bronze casting, silk weaving, conical hats, incense, drums, pottery and folk paintings, tied to craft villages.
What offerings go on the đại tường memorial tray and how is mourning ended?
Giỗ hết đại tường marks the end of two years of mourning. It covers the offering tray, how to arrange it, and the sequence for xả tang in Vietnamese custom.
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.
Does modernisation make Vietnamese people less likely to believe in spirits? Why temples, shrines and festivals grew busier after Đổi Mới
Anthropology finds modernisation does not erase spirit belief in Vietnam. Temples and festivals grew busier after Đổi Mới for several overlapping reasons.
Cao Đài Founding Day and the Hạ Ngươn Festival on the Full Moon of the Tenth Lunar Month: How Does the Cao Đài Holy See in Tây Ninh Organize Them?
Cao Đài Founding Day marks the 1926 Hoang khai Dai dao Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ, held around the tenth lunar month full moon at Tây Ninh Holy See.
What Is Đại Hàn, When Does It Begin, and What Customs Are Observed?
Đại Hàn is the last of the 24 solar terms, at solar longitude 300 degrees and lasting about 15 days. Here its calculation, customs, and meaning are explained.
Decoding the Hexagram Fire over Heaven (Da You) in the I Ching - Structure and Lessons
The hexagram Fire over Heaven (Da You) in the I Ching symbolizes great prosperity, and its lessons center on staying humble and keeping a bright mind.
What Does Đại Hao Star Mean in Tử Vi: Good or Bad? Correct Understanding and Common Misconceptions
Đại Hao in Tử Vi is not merely a malefic star. This analysis explains its dissipating nature, how it acts by palace, and when it forms a good configuration.
The Hồng Bàng Lineage and Kinh Dương Vương: What the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư Records at Its Opening
Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư opens with the Hồng Bàng era: Kinh Dương Vương, named Lộc Tục, and the realm of Xích Quỷ. The Hán text set beside later histories.
Vietnamese Ao Dai: History and Cultural Significance
The Vietnamese ao dai evolved from the 17th century xiem canh sen garment through reforms under Lord Nguyễn Phúc Khoát and King Minh Mạng.
What Does Hexagram 32, Lei Feng Heng (恆, ䷟), Say About Endurance, and Why Does Endurance Not Mean Standing Still?
Hexagram 32, Lei Feng Heng (恆, ䷟), concerns the way of sustaining what lasts. Its texts show endurance is not standing still but moving forward.
What did the 1010 Edict on the Relocation of the Capital say about the land of Đại La, and how should the phrase 'coiling dragon, crouching tiger' be understood?
The 1010 Edict on the Relocation of the Capital describes Đại La as the center of heaven and earth, with the posture of a coiling dragon and crouching tiger.
Cau Ngu Festival at Cửa Đại honoring the Nam Hải Whale God
Cau Ngu festival at Cửa Đại lets fishermen honor the Nam Hải whale god and pray for good weather and a bountiful season, with rituals and folk performances.
When a Person Dies in a Leap Month, Which Month Is the Death Anniversary Held? How to Calculate Tiểu Tường, Đại Tường and Húy Nhật
If someone dies in a leap month, in which month is the giỗ held? How tiểu tường, đại tường and the yearly anniversary are counted, per Giác Ngộ.
What does Tưởng Đại Hồng's Địa lý biện chính contain, and why does the Huyền Không school treat it as a foundational text?
Địa lý biện chính của Tưởng Đại Hồng chú giải năm kinh cổ, đính chính bản sai lưu truyền và đặt nền lý khí Tam Nguyên cho phái Huyền Không.
What Is Lục Nhâm? Steps to Build a Đại Lục Nhâm Chart from Thien Ban and Tứ Khóa to Tam Truyền and Thiên Tướng
Lục Nhâm is an ancient divination method in the Tam Thức group. Learn how Đại Lục Nhâm builds a chart: Thien Ban, Tứ Khóa, Tam Truyền, and Thiên Tướng.
Earthly Branch combinations, clashes, punishments, and harms in a Ba Tu chart: reading by palace position and interaction with Dai Van and Luu Nien
How the four Earthly Branches in a Ba Tu chart combine, clash, punish, or harm one another, read by palace position and links to Dai Van and Luu Nien.
What Does Hexagram 34, Lei Tian Da Zhuang (Great Power), Say About Great Strength and Its Limits?
Hexagram 34, Lei Tian Da Zhuang, covers great strength and its limits, with its structure, Judgment, six line texts and lessons on conduct.
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh quells the rebellion of the Twelve Warlords and founds the Đại Cồ Việt state: course of events, significance, and layers of legend
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh put down the twelve warlords, reunified the country and founded Đại Cồ Việt in 968, after more than twenty years of division.
What Is Minor Fortune in Bazi? How to Start It and How It Differs from Major Fortune and Annual Fortune
Minor fortune in Bát Tự covers one year and supplements the ten-year major fortune. How it starts, per Tam Mệnh Thông Hội, and how it differs.
The Trang Sinh Water Method of the Tam Hợp School: Receiving Water at the Trang Sinh Palace, Discharging Water at the Tuyet Palace, and the Eight Great Hoàng Tuyền
The Tam Hợp Trang Sinh water method reads water by direction: receive water at the Trang Sinh palace, discharge it at the Tuyet palace.
What Is a Thần Chủ Tablet, and Why Is It Buried at the Fifth Generation?
Thần chủ, a jujube wood tablet with name, title and dates, sits on the altar; custom keeps four generations, then the cao tổ tablet is buried at the fifth.
Worship of Thổ Công and Thổ Địa: Household Land-Guardian Deities
Thổ Công and Thổ Địa guard the land of a Vietnamese home, distinct from the wealth-focused Thần Tài, worshipped as a triad with Thổ Kỳ.
Tarot 7 of Pentacles: Symbolism and In-depth Meaning
Explore the symbolism and in-depth meaning of the 7 of Pentacles in Tarot: patience, reassessment of efforts, and lessons on long-term investment.
Quan Dai Star in the Trường Sinh Cycle: Meaning at Each Stage of the Destiny Chart
The Quan Dai star in the Trường Sinh cycle marks maturity, fame and authority, with its meaning at each stage of a Tử Vi chart.
The Water Heaven Xu Hexagram in the 64 Hexagrams of the I Ching: Origins, Meaning, and Practical Lessons
Hexagram 5, Water Heaven Xu, covers its origins, structure and meaning: waiting, nurturing trust and patience, with lessons for modern life.
Hexagram 28 Da Quo (Great Exceeding) - Meaning and Application in the I Ching
Hexagram 28 Da Quo in the I Ching: its structure, meaning, and guidance for handling extraordinary pressure when a heavy burden overwhelms a weak foundation.
What Is Classical Tử Vi and How Does It Differ from Modern Tử Vi?
Classical Tử Vi uses 12 palaces and 14 main stars to read destiny, while modern Tử Vi is a folk term for everyday chart lookup.
Đồ Sơn Buffalo Fighting Festival: Origins, Rituals and Modern Controversies
Đồ Sơn buffalo fighting festival in Hải Phòng: its origins, rituals and the modern controversies over commercialization, betting and accidents.
Applying the I Ching in Your Career: A Compass for the Modern Gentleman
The I Ching is a philosophy of change, not a fate predictor. Applied to a career, it teaches a noble person to read the times and hold to principle.
What Are the Twelve Heavenly Generals and Twelve Monthly Generals of Da Liu Ren, and How Do They Differ?
Da Liu Ren builds the heaven plate from twelve Monthly Generals that shift with mid-qi, then places twelve Heavenly Generals from the Nobleman.
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.
Why We Avoid the Belongings of the Dead and Seek New Year's Luck: Contagious Magic in the Modern Mind
Contagious magic rests on two laws: contact transfers properties, and similarity means shared essence. Rozin's 1986 experiments show they still shape us.
Drawing lots, tossing poe blocks, and pulling omikuji: Ways of "asking the gods" in Taiwan, Japan, and Vietnam seen from anthropology
How anthropology compares asking the gods via poe blocks, divination lots, and omikuji in Taiwan, Japan, and Vietnam, noting gaps in the evidence.
Do spiritual believers 'see' more: the face-in-noise experiment and the lenient response threshold
Experiments show mystical believers report seeing faces in ambiguous images more often, yet their visual sensitivity is unchanged.
Year-end land offering and tạ đất rite: should it be held indoors or outdoors? How many bowls of chè, what offerings, and how to prepare them
Year-end tạ đất rites are usually held outdoors in the yard, indoors only in cramped homes; offerings vary by region, with no fixed number of chè bowls.
What is Trải bài?
A spread is a predefined layout of Tarot cards in which each position carries its own meaning to help interpret a question.
Vượng Sơn Vượng Hướng in Huyền Không Phi Tinh: Why It Is the Best Configuration and Why No Primary Facing in Period 9 Achieves It
Vượng sơn vượng hướng in Huyền Không phi tinh: why it ranks as the best pattern, and why no main facing direction achieves it in Period 9.
Hexagram Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63, 既濟, ䷾): When the Work Is Done and Why 'Good at First, Chaos at the End'?
Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63) is the only hexagram with all six lines in correct position and paired. It teaches small success and a good start but chaotic end.
What is Tứ Hóa?
Tứ Hóa are the four stars Hóa Lộc, Hóa Quyền, Hóa Khoa and Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi astrology, standing for prosperity, power, reputation and adversity.
The First Peak in Numerology: Life Stage and Meaning
Explore the meaning and calculation of the first peak in numerology, a crucial stage that shapes the foundation of one's life.
Phạm Tuyên
Vietnamese musician, author of the song 'Như có Bác trong ngày đại thắng' and many children's songs
The 56 Minor Arcana cards
The complete Minor Arcana across four suits, with Vietnamese and English names, keywords, upright and reversed meanings. Together with the existing 22 Major Arcana it makes the full 78-card deck.
Festivals and folk beliefs of the 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam
Festivals, rites and worship customs of the 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam, one row per festival, with each group's home region and language family. Extracted from 54 Nhật Nguyệt articles; every row cites the article it came from.
Types of Vietnamese offering rites
155 types of Vietnamese offering rites in 15 groups, from ancestor and death-anniversary rites, Tết and the festivals of the year to funerals, communal houses and temples, and the rites of ethnic communities; each with alternative names, timing, recipients, a short description, classification axes (cycle, social setting, beings worshipped, tradition, ethnic group, cultural region), a structured date and sourced passages on its customs. It is the key table for Nhật Nguyệt's datasets on offering prayers and rite customs.
Vietnamese offering prayers (văn cúng)
456 prayers, orations, petitions and repentance verses in use, in print and online in Vietnam, one text per row with its rite type, part of the rite, region, tradition, text family, variants and fill-in slots. The wording is kept in Vietnamese as the source gives it; 348 texts carry the name and address of the source page, 108 are collected texts whose source is not named.