Wild sunflowers bloom on Chư Đang Ya volcano in Gia Lai from mid-October to November, tied to a festival week and the culture of the local Jrai people.
The Tep Temple festival for Trung Túc Vương Lê Lai in Kiên Thọ commune, Thanh Hóa falls on the 21st of the 8th lunar month and the 8th of the 1st lunar month.
After UNESCO recognition in 2016, medium masters and ban hoi still teach and uphold hau dong norms while adjusting practice to heritage conservation demands.
What replacing an incense bowl involves, when it should be renewed, who in the family may do it, and why the customs vary across regions and households.
A clan genealogy lists taboo and courtesy names, birth and death dates, burial sites and children; it was kept in an altar cabinet or box at the clan hall.
The death anniversary of Lễ Thành Hau Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh honors the pioneer of Southern Vietnam, a ritual named a National Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2025.
What is pseudoscience? A look at the definition, Popper's demarcation criterion, critiques from Duhem, Quine and Kuhn, and the practical stakes involved.
Explore the custom of black teeth staining, once a beauty standard of the Lu people in Lai Châu, along with other unique cultural values being preserved.
The Khơ Mú new rice celebration in Than Uyên, Lai Châu gives thanks to ancestors and the land spirit after harvest, with singing to welcome the new rice.
Death anniversary rituals in Vietnamese culture remember ancestors and bring families together. Organization should suit each family, staying simple and warm.
How to set out Ram thang Gieng (first full moon) offering trays at home: how many trays, vegetarian or savory dishes, order of offering, layout and taboos.
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.
The Ngái are one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, with a very small population living scattered across Quảng Ninh, Hải Phòng, Bắc Giang, Lạng Sơn and Cao Bằng.
The Si La people live in Mường Tè, Lai Châu, speak a Tibeto-Burman language, worship ancestors, and hold the altar rite, New Year and new rice festivals.
Mai Thúc Loan (722) and Phùng Hưng (791) were two major uprisings under Tang rule. An analysis of their background, course and historical significance.
155 types of Vietnamese offering rites in 15 groups, from ancestor and death-anniversary rites, Tết and the festivals of the year to funerals, communal houses and temples, and the rites of ethnic communities; each with alternative names, timing, recipients, a short description, classification axes (cycle, social setting, beings worshipped, tradition, ethnic group, cultural region), a structured date and sourced passages on its customs. It is the key table for Nhật Nguyệt's datasets on offering prayers and rite customs.
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.