Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsTết in northern Vietnam: the feast tray, Nhật Tân peach blossom, the Hàng Lược flower market and three days of family reunion, with origins and meaning.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsTết markets in the North, Centre and South: what the year-end markets sell and why people go, from old accounts and present-day reports.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiKun House is one of Ba Zhai Feng Shui's West Group, tied to the Kun trigram and southwest, with five-element traits and compatible directions.
Updated 3 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › RegionsNorthwest Vietnam culture covers ethnic communities, harvest rituals, seasonal festivals and crafts like weaving, embroidery, forging and silver carving.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyThe Property Palace in Zi Wei Dou Shu covers more than real estate. It also reflects family ties, ancestry and deep psychological states.
Updated 29 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsTết in Sài Gòn: the Nguyễn Huệ flower market from 1960 and flower street from 2004, the flower boats of Bình Đông wharf, and how families keep Tết.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe 12th Tam Giac Mach Flower Festival opens on 6 November 2026 in Dong Van, Tuyen Quang, with blooms from October to December.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsSene Dolta, also called Sen Don Ta or Pchum Ben, is the Southern Khmer ancestor-repaying festival. Learn its timing, temple and home rituals, and meaning.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Dictionary › Vietnamese folk beliefsHầu đồng, also called lên đồng or hầu bóng, is the central ritual of Mother Goddess worship in Vietnam, where a medium incarnates the Four Palaces spirits.
Updated 11 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Dictionary › Feng shuiDong Tu Trach is a group of four dwelling orientations (Kham, Chan, Ly, Ton) in Bat Trach feng shui, tied to people of Dong Tu Menh.
Updated 12 Sept 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 › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesDong Chi is the 22nd solar term and the shortest day of the year. For the Chinese community it is Tet Dong Chi, a time for che troi nuoc and ancestor worship.
Updated 25 Sept 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 › Eastern › Feng shuiThe Hue Imperial City sits on the north bank of the Perfume River, using Ngu Binh Mountain as its front screen and Hen and Da Vien islets as its flanks.
Updated 26 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefAfter UNESCO recognition in 2016, medium masters and ban hoi still teach and uphold hau dong norms while adjusting practice to heritage conservation demands.
Updated 28 Sept 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 › 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 craftsTra Dong bronze casting village in Thanh Hoa, over 1,000 years old, keeps hereditary secrets of clay mold making and alloy blending.
Updated 23 Aug 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 dressKhan Dong and Ao The were formal wear for Vietnamese men, reflecting elegance and propriety, now revived for Tet, weddings and ceremonies.
Updated 3 Sept 2026Culture and belief
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 › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou ShuThiên Đồng is the Blessing Star, governing ease and gentleness. Explore its meaning, dignity, and the paradox of hardship turning to blessing.
Updated 12 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram 32, Lei Feng Heng (恆, ䷟), concerns the way of sustaining what lasts. Its texts show endurance is not standing still but moving forward.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefHầu đồng is the spirit mediumship ritual at the heart of Đạo Mẫu, believed to channel the Tứ Phủ deities through a medium.
Updated 20 Aug 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 › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsExplore the Dien Bien Ban Flower Festival, a unique cultural event recreating traditional rituals of Northwest ethnic groups like Thai, Mong, Dao, and Ha Nhi.
Updated 23 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe Nho Dong rain praying ceremony of the Co Ho Cil people near Lang Biang Mountain asks Yang for favorable weather and abundant harvests.
Updated 7 Jul 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 figuresEmperor Quang Trung (Nguyen Hue) led the Tay Son movement and crushed 290,000 Qing troops at Ngoc Hoi - Dong Da in 1789.
Updated 14 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customsTết Hoa mào gà is the biggest yearly festival of the Cống in Điện Biên; in Pa Thơm it falls near the full moon of the 10th lunar month. Rites and meaning.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › PhysiognomyExplore the position, characteristics, and physiognomic meaning of Dong Nhac (left cheekbone) in the Five Peaks system of Eastern physiognomy.
Updated 23 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional craftsDong Ho folk painting, a 500-year craft in Bac Ninh, uses woodblock printing and natural colors. UNESCO listed it as heritage in need of urgent safeguarding.
Updated 13 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle ritesSouthern Khmer weddings feature the betel palm flower cutting ceremony that formalizes the union and the hand-tying ritual, a sacred moment binding two souls.
Updated 13 Sept 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 › Folk beliefThe Mother Goddess Worship of Tam Phu venerates the Holy Mothers and deities of the universe, guiding people toward a practical life.
Updated 10 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresThe legend of Chu Dong Tu and Tien Dung, a poor man and a princess whose love story ends in deification among Vietnam's Four Immortals.
Updated 5 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefPractitioners describe căn đồng as a spirit root that forces the trình đồng rite, while anthropologists read it as rebuilding self and social position.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsDong Son bronze drums: their dating, casting techniques, star motifs, Lac birds and frog figures, and what these reveal about ancient Vietnamese beliefs.
Updated 23 Sept 2026Culture and belief
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 festivalsThe Dong Bang Temple Festival runs from the 20th to 26th of the eighth lunar month in Hung Yen, honoring King Father Bat Hai Dong Dinh.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › PsychologySwedish population register data from 1968 to 2001 show couples with 'compatible' zodiac signs neither marry more nor divorce less.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Yen Tu Festival honours Emperor-Buddha Tran Nhan Tong, founder of the Truc Lam Zen sect, with its rituals and spiritual meaning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe Grand Memorial for Buddha Emperor Tran Nhan Tong's Parinirvana is held at Cung Truc Lam, Yen Tu and Ngoa Van Pagoda each year.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
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