By Nhật Nguyệt's calendar calculation, Dong Chi 2026 falls on Tuesday, December 22, corresponding to the 14th day of the 11th lunar month. The Dong Chi solar term lasts from December 22, 2026 to January 5, 2027.
Dong Chi is the 22nd solar term and the shortest day of the year. For the Chinese community it is Tết Đông Chi, a time for che troi nuoc and ancestor worship.
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.
Tiểu Hàn is the 23rd of the 24 solar terms, at solar longitude 285 degrees. It starts on January 5 or 6, opens the Sửu month and lasts about 14.7 days.
Hầu 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.
After UNESCO recognition in 2016, medium masters and ban hoi still teach and uphold hau dong norms while adjusting practice to heritage conservation demands.
Đông Sơn bronze drums: their dating, casting techniques, star motifs, Lac birds and frog figures, and what these reveal about ancient Vietnamese beliefs.
Explore the meaning of Life Path number 2 in Eastern numerology: personality, mission, love, career, and advice to maximize the potential of this number.
Practitioners describe căn đồng as a spirit root that forces the trình đồng rite, while anthropologists read it as rebuilding self and social position.
Tong Ren (Union of Men), Hexagram 13 of the I Ching, joins Heaven and Fire. Its structure speaks of harmony, openness and shared purpose in cooperation.
Đông Hồ folk painting, a 500-year craft in Bắc Ninh, uses woodblock printing and natural colors. UNESCO listed it as heritage in need of urgent safeguarding.
The Công Đồng Bắc Lệ Temple Festival in Tân Thành Commune, Lạng Sơn runs from the 18th to 20th of the 9th lunar month, with the palanquin bathing rite.
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.
A child's Bát Tự or Tử Vi chart should only suggest temperament and how to accompany them, never a fixed verdict or scientific forecast of their future.
Amitābha Buddha's Day, 17th of the 11th lunar month (25 Dec 2026): why this date was chosen, what the sutra says, and how Vietnamese pagodas observe it.
The twelve double-hours of each day across the sixty-day stem-branch cycle, marking which are auspicious. Sixty times twelve is seven hundred and twenty rows, one full cycle.
Every pair among the sixty stem-branch combinations, three thousand six hundred rows, giving the element relation between their sounds and the branch grouping.
132 things to avoid and practical notes for Vietnamese offering rites, across 38 rite types, one sentence per row in three languages with the rite, region, tradition, type and source page addresses. Taken only from reviewed procedure rows; it describes custom according to the sources and prescribes nothing.
407 rows of offering procedures: each row is how one rite is performed in one region within one tradition, with timing, place of offering, officiant, offerings with catalogue codes, order of steps, things to avoid and practical notes, plus the addresses of the source pages or the titles of source books. Where sources disagree is recorded in the ghi_chu column.