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Traditional systems Cast a hexagram Toss three coins six times for a hexagram, then read its meaning.
Start Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief How anthropology compares asking the gods via poe blocks, divination lots, and omikuji in Taiwan, Japan, and Vietnam, noting gaps in the evidence.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Glossary Nhật Nguyệt is the Sino-Vietnamese pair for sun and moon, symbolizing yin and yang, time, and the cosmos in East Asian culture.
Updated 16 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Scientific historiography treats Tử Vi, Bát Tự and Thái Ất as calculation techniques built on the can chi calendar and ancient astronomy.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Do astrologers matching charts to unknown people beat chance? Double-blind tests, Carlson 1985 to Hartmann 2006, found they did not.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Lập Đông is the 19th of the 24 solar terms, marking the start of winter and usually falling on 7 or 8 November each year.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui East-facing houses belong to the Wood element, suited to Wood and Fire and to Chấn or Tốn trigrams. Note the limits on Metal and balance the five elements.
Updated 30 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Kan houses in Bazhai Feng Shui: five-element traits, compatible directions, and guidance on the main door, bedroom, and kitchen for Kan ming people.
Updated 8 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Zhen House in Bazhai Feng Shui: its Wood traits, the gua numbers it suits, and its favorable and unfavorable directions for Zhen ming people.
Updated 28 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Explore Li House of the East Group in Ba Zhai: five-element traits, trigram fate, compatible house directions, and remedies when facing incompatibility.
Updated 20 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Xun house in the East Group suits Xun life palace people. Its favorable directions: Sheng Qi North, Tian Yi East, Yan Nian South, Fu Wei Southeast.
Updated 23 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Bát Trạch feng shui uses your Kua number, from birth year and gender, to sort people into East or West Life Groups and find auspicious directions.
Updated 19 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Folk taboos Tuổi mụ is the Vietnamese lunar way of counting age: current year minus birth year, plus one, and folk calculations use this number.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Bạch Mã Temple in Hanoi guards the East of Thăng Long's Four Guardian Temples and worships Long Đỗ, the city's tutelary god.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals The Heavenly Stems are ten symbols in the Stem-Branch system, used to record days, months, years and hours in East Asian calendrics.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals The zodiac animal system is the twelve Earthly Branches, from Rat to Pig, used to reckon years, months, hours and ages in East Asian culture.
Updated 11 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Choosing dates and hours Solar terms are 24 markers dividing the year by the Sun's position on the ecliptic, used in East Asian calendrics to determine seasons and festivals.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals Can Chi pairs the Ten Heavenly Stems with the Twelve Earthly Branches to record years, months, days and hours in the traditional East Asian calendar.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Shang oracle bone divination (c. 13th to 11th century BCE) burned turtle shells and ox bones, read the cracks, then carved the question onto the bone.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals Địa Chi is a system of 12 symbols, from Rat to Pig, used to mark time, direction and relationships in East Asian calendrics and the Stem-Branch cycle.
Updated 11 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Liu Yao reads the six lines of a hexagram with Stem-Branch, Five Elements, Six Relatives and Six Spirits, so it answers who, what, when and how much.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Playing-card reading Cartomancy uses an ordinary 52-card deck, rooted in European folk and Romani tradition, and largely predates Tarot's use for fortune-telling.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Chicken feet divination at Tet and the new rice ceremony of ethnic minorities aims to predict fate and crops for the new year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching What yin and yang mean, where the terms come from, and how Kinh Dịch, Bát Tự, Tử Vi and phong thủy use them, each by its own conventions.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The nine palaces are the nine cells of the Luo Shu, a 3x3 square whose every line totals 15, and the grid used by Huyền Không and Kỳ Môn.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Anxiety and ritual seeking track together in observational data, but experiments that induced lost control have not replicated.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Day divination traces back to rishu day books excavated from Warring States, Qin and Han tombs, already systematized by the 3rd century BCE.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Dunhuang manuscripts from the 9th and 10th centuries cover day-selection, dream interpretation, physiognomy, and home feng shui.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching In Lục Hào, the Sibling line shares the palace element and stands for siblings, friends and rivals, aiding those people but harming wealth divination.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Feng shui Đông Tứ Trạch is a group of four dwelling orientations (Kham, Chan, Ly, Ton) in Bát Trạch feng shui, tied to people of Đông Tứ Mệnh.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức A Lục Nhâm course type names a chart by the overcoming relations among its four courses. The four base types are Nguyên Thủ, Trùng Thẩm, Tri Nhất, Thiệp Hại.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Chu Hy's method for judging change in the Dịch học khải mông sets out which text to read when a hexagram has one to six moving lines.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief When something goes missing, many Vietnamese families pray to Ông Địa, the Earth God, promising an offering if it turns up. Search first, then try the ritual.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Self Line marks the querent, the Response Line marks the other party in Liu Yao. Their positions decide how the whole hexagram is assigned and read.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk traditional practices Drawing fortune sticks at the temple at the start of the year: offerings, ritual steps, cultural meaning, and notes for a respectful visit.
Updated 4 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Studies in mainland China, Taiwan, Hồng Kông and Asian-American communities find Dragon-year children score slightly higher.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Anthropologists describe feng shui as a symbolic system for reading landscapes and a social tool within lineages. In the West, it became a home decor product.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching A clear reference guide to all eight trigrams of the I Ching: their meaning, element, family member, and direction according to the Later Heaven arrangement.
Updated 9 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Numerology Number 9 in Eastern Numerology stands for completion, wisdom and compassion, and shapes the ideals of people born under it.
Updated 21 Jun 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Numerology Explore the meaning of Life Path number 2 in Eastern numerology: personality, mission, love, career, and advice to maximize the potential of this number.
Updated 14 Jun 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Numerology Explore the profound meaning of number 8 in Eastern numerology: symbol of prosperity, yin-yang balance, power and wisdom.
Updated 18 Jun 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Buddhism Sun Moon Lamp Light Buddha is the last of twenty thousand Buddhas sharing one title in the Lotus Sutra's opening chapter.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Duyên phận is a folk way of speaking about meetings as if preordained. Nhân duyên in Buddhism means conditions that give rise to phenomena, not fate.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Luy Lâu is seen as one of the earliest places Buddhism reached Giao Châu, linked with chùa Dâu, the Tứ Pháp cult and Mâu Tử's Lý hoặc luận.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Numerology Explore the profound meaning of number 7 in Eastern numerology: a symbol of wisdom, contemplation, solitude, and spiritual journey.
Updated 7 Aug 2026 Modern system
Celebrities Classical pianist, the first Asian artist to win First Prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition (1980)
Celebrities Pilot, cosmonaut, the first Vietnamese and the first Asian to fly into space (in 1980)
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