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Start Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites When to burn the mourning scarf in Vietnamese custom: the 49-day, 100-day and death anniversaries, plus the rites of removing mourning.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Tuần thất is seven weekly offerings over 49 days; the 49th day is chung thất; the 100th day is tốt khốc, the end of weeping. Origins and how each is done.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Vietnamese custom does not require the 49th-day memorial on the exact day. Many families hold it early or late, choosing the nearest date.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Explore the main rites of a traditional Vietnamese funeral, from encoffining and mourning attire to burial and the 49-day rites, and their cultural meaning.
Updated 4 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship A vegetarian giỗ uses plant dishes like gỏi cuốn, canh kiểm, bánh bèo and lẩu nấm, fitting when the deceased ate chay or the family follows Buddhism.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram Trạch Hỏa Cách No. 49 covers replacing the old with the new, from its Judgment and Image to why change must wait for the right moment.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi No birth month is best for everyone: Bát Tự reads the month by solar terms, Tử Vi by lunar months, and folk sayings on good birth months lack a firm basis.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Tiểu Thử usually begins on July 7 and opens the Mùi month. Start times for 2025 to 2030, the meaning of its name and what classical books record.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Western › Numerology Challenge Number 1 in numerology points to lessons about confidence, dependence and asserting yourself, plus ways to build courage and independence.
Updated 3 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The rites after a Vietnamese funeral: the ngu rites, the 49th and 100th days, tiểu tường, đại tường and the end of mourning, as old ritual books record.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Zodiac year taboos on building, marrying, or having a child, how Kim Lâu, Hoang Ốc, and Tam Tai are calculated by lunar age, and why methods differ.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship 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.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thái Bạch is the most inauspicious star in Cửu Diệu, tied to loss and betrayal. A monthly ritual on the 15th lunar day, facing West with 8 lamps, may help.
Updated 17 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Mother Âu Cơ Temple Festival in Phú Thọ runs on the 6th and 7th of the first lunar month, when female officiants lead rituals.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Four ways to cast an I Ching hexagram, yarrow stalks, three coins, number-based and time-based, and why each gives different moving-line odds.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Quan họ Bắc Ninh is call-and-response folk singing between liền anh and liền chị of twinned villages, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Waxing Crescent Moon is the first phase after the New Moon, symbolizing beginnings, willpower and action in astrology.
Updated 24 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The Thái Âm star is one of the three auspicious stars in the Nine Luminaries, tied to career and love. A monthly ritual on the 26th lunar day may help.
Updated 2 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites In Việt Nam phong tục, tế ngu counts from burial: sơ ngu on the burial day, tam ngu on the third. The 49th, 100th day and first anniversary count from death.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Lập Hạ, the 7th solar term, opens summer when the Sun reaches 45 degrees of longitude, usually on 5 or 6 May. How it is calculated and its customs.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram Hỏa Phong Đỉnh, No. 50 in the I Ching, is the three-legged ritual cauldron that cooks the new after the old is discarded.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Hạ Chí begins when the Sun reaches 90 degrees of solar longitude; from 2012 to 2043 it falls on 21 June, Vietnam time. Start times 2025 to 2030, old customs.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Xuân Phân, the fourth of the 24 solar terms, starts on 20 or 21 March in Vietnam time. Exact dates to 2030, its three pentads and the customs around it.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Folk belief is not science, but that does not make it worthless. The right way to read it is as cultural heritage, a symbolic language of community.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Vũ Thủy, second of the 24 solar terms, marks damp rain and warming soil after winter. This explains its dates, meaning, and folk customs.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Kinh Trập, the third of the 24 solar terms at solar longitude 345 degrees, usually begins March 5 or 6. Origin of the name and start times for 2025 to 2030.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Kim Lâu: divide tuổi mụ (lunar age) by 9; remainders 1, 3, 6, 8 are affected. Birth years affected for weddings in 2026 and 2027, and where the books differ.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Đại Tuyết, the 21st solar term, begins at solar longitude 255 degrees, usually on 7 December, opening the Tý month. Start times 2025 to 2030, Vietnam time.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos Vietnamese folk taboos for groundbreaking, construction and housewarming cover dates, directions and rituals, rooted in yin-yang and five elements.
Updated 16 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals The Sixty Jiazi is a cycle of 60 sexagenary combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches used to number years, months, days and hours.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Western › Psychology What a situationship is, the signs that reveal one, why young people bring it to tarot readings, and how to ask the other person directly for clarity.
Updated 23 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Hanoi field research shows sao giai han attendees span many ages and jobs, drawn by belief in inauspicious stars and peace of mind.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Sao chiếu mệnh 2027 uses the Cửu Diệu system by lunar age. It covers the nine stars, how to look them up, their effects.
Updated 4 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Read love and marriage on a Tử Vi chart starting from the Phu Thê palace, then Quan Lộc, Thiên Di, Phúc Đức and Tài Bạch, with the love stars read in context.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos Checking ages for building a house in 2027 Đinh Mùi: how Kim Lâu, Hoang Ốc and Tam Tai are calculated, and why an age can break one and not the others.
Updated 21 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › I Ching & Five Elements The I Ching is an ancient Chinese philosophical and divination system built on 64 hexagrams formed from the eight trigrams, or Bagua.
Updated 11 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 43, Trạch Thiên Quải, means resolve: five yang lines push out one yin line. Its judgments, image, and lessons on acting openly without force.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 55, Lei Huo Feng (豐), speaks of great prosperity and success, like the sun at noon, with a warning that once the sun peaks it will decline.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities Vietnam recognises 54 ethnic groups under the 1979 official list, with the Kinh majority and 53 minority groups spread across all regions.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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