Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingThủy 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.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam ThứcIn Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp, Tam Kỳ are Ất, Bính, Đinh, while Lục Nghi are Mậu, Kỷ, Canh, Tân, Nhâm, Quý. Each of the six Giáp hides under one Lục Nghi stem.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyMệnh vô chính diệu means the Mệnh palace holds no major star. Readers borrow stars from Thiên Di, though only 70 to 80 percent carries over.
Updated 26 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Dictionary › Tử Vi (Zi Wei Dou Shu)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.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiBing mountain direction sits in the Li trigram and belongs to the Fire element in the 24 mountain directions of feng shui.
Updated 15 Jun 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsTuồng, or hát bội, is Vietnam's classical theatre, known for coded face-painting and for the plays of Đào Tấn in Bình Định, its heartland.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsKeo Hanh Thien Pagoda Festival in Ninh Binh falls in mid-Ninth lunar month, honoring Zen Master Duong Khong Lo with boat racing and folk games.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsHat Xoan Phu Tho is ritual singing at the communal house gate to worship the Hung Kings, performed in three stages by four original Xoan guilds in Viet Tri.
Updated 23 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefExplore the Tra Hat rain-praying festival of the Khmer Mu people in Dien Bien: origins, rituals, offerings, and profound agricultural cultural significance.
Updated 24 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsCo Le Pagoda Festival (Ong Festival) in Ninh Binh runs from the 13th to the 16th of the ninth lunar month, with processions and a boat race by five clans.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Dictionary › Face and palm readingTam Đình is a face reading method splitting the face into three parts: head to hairline, hairline to nose tip, and nose tip to chin.
Updated 11 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsHát xẩm is a northern Vietnamese folk singing craft dated to about the 14th century, sung at markets, village yards and on Hanoi trams.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThree early 20th century recorders found fortune telling, day selection and mediumship widespread in northern Vietnam, each seeing them differently.
Updated 28 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresThe 40 AD uprising of Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, its causes and significance, plus Hat Mon Temple in Hanoi, the sacred site tied to their final days.
Updated 9 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional craftsLang Chuong village in Thanh Oai, Hanoi keeps its centuries-old conical hat craft alive through spinning techniques and hidden stitches.
Updated 13 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresHeld each year at Hoa Lu Ancient Capital, Ninh Binh, this festival honors King Dinh Bo Linh, founder of Dai Co Viet state.
Updated 8 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe rain-praying festival of the Cham people in Binh Thuan is an ancient agricultural ritual held after Cham New Year, seeking blessings for good weather.
Updated 13 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Khai Ha festival is the largest folk festival of the Muong people in Hoa Binh, held in the first lunar month to pray for good harvests.
Updated 19 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsDinh Cau Phu Quoc Festival falls on the 15th and 16th of the 10th lunar month, with Nghinh Cau, Yet Cau and Chinh Te rituals honouring Chua Ngoc Nuong Nuong.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyBinh Dia Moc is the Na Am for Mau Tuat and Ky Hoi years, a Wood element. The article covers its traits, feng shui meaning, colors and uses.
Updated 11 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsChèo is the folk musical theatre of the Red River Delta, played on a mat in the communal house yard, with old plays such as Quan Âm Thị Kính.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyMieu, Vuong, Dac, Binh and Ham are the five brightness levels of a star in Tu Vi, and they explain why the same star reads oppositely in different palaces.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresChua Thac Bo in Hoa Binh honours two female generals from the Le Loi era who ferried provisions across the Da River for his army.
Updated 25 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresTrang Trinh Nguyen Binh Khiem was a 16th century cultural celebrity. His temple in Vinh Bao, Hai Phong, is a special national relic.
Updated 4 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › PsychologyJapan's 1966 Bính Ngọ year saw births fall about 15% on a belief that girls born then harmed husbands. Vietnam's 2026 data gap remains.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHeavenly Stem Ding is Yin Fire: a small flame, gentle light and spreading warmth. In the I Ching it points to quiet maturity and nourishment.
Updated 17 Jun 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyPhục Binh is a yin minor star ruling ambush, scheming, and hidden rivalry. This piece explains its cát hung meanings and how to interpret it.
Updated 3 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiDinh mountain sits in the Xun trigram, Wood element, Yin nature, between 157. 5 and 172. 5 degrees on the feng shui compass.
Updated 28 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiIn 968 Đinh Bộ Lĩnh made Hoa Lư the capital of Đại Cồ Việt: limestone peaks formed a natural wall and the Hoàng Long River a water route.
Updated 26 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsWater puppetry is a folk stage art of Vietnam's wet-rice civilisation, performed on water with a hidden chamber and pavilion.
Updated 23 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram Hoa Phong Dinh, No. 50 in the I Ching, is the three-legged ritual cauldron that cooks the new after the old is discarded.
Updated 26 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle ritesThe Quan Lang singing ritual in Tay weddings has three stages, Don, Nop and Dua, and is recognized as a national heritage.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Folk divinationYoung people turn to fortune telling, tarot or astrology amid study and work pressure and uncertainty about the future, not from full belief in the occult.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiFlying stars for Đinh Mùi 2027: Ngũ Hoàng in the North, Tam Sát in the West, Thái Tuế at Mùi in the Southwest, as read in Trạch vận tân án.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiThe heavenly stems in Bát Tự: the four clashing pairs, the pairs that only overcome one another, and how Trích Thiên Tủy speaks of stems at war.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsDinh Thầy Thím Festival runs from the 14th to the 16th of the Ninth Lunar Month with spirit welcoming, cộ bánh offerings, Thỉnh sanh, and Tiền hiền rites.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority beliefThe Tày of Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn and Tuyên Quang keep Then singing, the tính lute, and the Lồng Tồng festival, a heritage UNESCO inscribed in 2019.
Updated 19 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiTam Long traces a dragon vein from its distant source peak through to tong son, thieu to son and phu mau son to where it settles.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiDuong Nhan is the branch one position before Loc of a yang stem, the same as De Vuong. See how to look it up by day master and where schools disagree.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
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