Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Feng shui split into two main schools over a thousand years: Jiangxi reads terrain forms, while Fujian li qi calculates with a compass.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Tử Vi Đẩu Số has many branches, including Tam Hợp, Tứ Hóa, Trung Châu and Tân Biên. Each reads one chart differently through star sets and Tứ Hóa placement.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The Táng thư defines force as a thousand feet and form as a hundred: where the mountain's force arrives and the form stops, qi is said to gather.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Yang Junsong, also called Yang Jiupin, is a Tang era feng shui figure tied to the Jiangxi school and the Loan Dau school.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Vượng sơn vượng hướng in Huyền Không phi tinh: why it ranks as the best pattern, and why no main facing direction achieves it in Period 9.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Wood physiognomy: a tall, lean frame with fine bones and a clear, carrying voice. How three old texts each describe the Wood type, and where they differ.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Metal face types in Chinese physiognomy often have square, angular faces, white skin and prominent bones, plus decisive, disciplined personalities.
Updated 2 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Sha are the land forms and hills that surround an acupuncture point and shield its qi. This analysis covers their definition and classification.
Updated 29 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Tam Hinh in Bát Tự explains Dần Tỵ Thân, Sửu Tuất Mùi, Tý Mão and the four self-punishing branches, and how classical texts read them.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Hình and Thiên Diêu stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu: their origins, nature, and detailed meanings, plus how they act with other stars.
Updated 5 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Auspicious and inauspicious days classify a whole day by the twelve deities, while auspicious hours classify each two-hour block by that same set.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Vietnam's Decree 39/2024/NĐ-CP sets seven types of intangible cultural heritage for inventory, with traditional crafts fifth and folk knowledge seventh.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Water shape face reading traits include a full soft body, bright skin and eyes, a gentle flexible nature, and a talent for business, with notes on health.
Updated 4 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Fire physiognomy in face reading: a pointed face, rosy skin, reddish hair and a hurried gait mark the Fire element type.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional dress The Vietnamese ao dai evolved from the 17th century xiem canh sen garment through reforms under Lord Nguyễn Phúc Khoát and King Minh Mạng.
Updated 25 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Bát Tràng pottery appears in written records from the 14th century; this article traces its history and the steps from clay to kiln.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot An in-depth guide to the V-shaped Tarot spread for love and relationships, exploring each position's meaning and how to interpret it effectively.
Updated 18 Aug 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Explore the deep cultural significance of traditional Vietnamese funerals, common burial forms, and trends of change in modern society.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam Southern Vietnam worship spans Thành hoàng, Bà Chúa Xứ, Mẫu, whale and ancestor veneration. Its origins, cultural fusion and modern shifts are examined.
Updated 6 Oct 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam Northern Vietnam worship includes ancestor veneration, Thành hoàng, Mother Goddess and folk rites, reflecting uống nước nhớ nguồn and the wish for peace.
Updated 6 Oct 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Earth shape in physiognomy: sturdy build, broad shoulders, loyal and steadfast character, plus destiny shifts through Fire and Wood.
Updated 25 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi How the four Earthly Branches in a Ba Tu chart combine, clash, punish, or harm one another, read by palace position and links to Dai Van and Luu Nien.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Kinh Dịch hội is an umbrella term for the independent groups, clubs, classes and online communities that study the Kinh Dịch together in Vietnam.
Updated 3 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Superstition survives because our learning machinery produces it: chance coincidences become rituals, and false beliefs may cost less than missed causes.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Huyền Quang (Lý Đạo Tái), third patriarch of the Trúc Lâm Zen school after Trần Nhân Tông and Pháp Loa, is profiled via his life, deeds and surviving poetry.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Lục Nhâm lesson types (khóa thể) name each chart, set by the four lessons, three transmissions and stem-branch ties; a chart is named by combining several.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Placing The Sun beside The Moon contrasts the light and dark poles of the Major Arcana. What Waite wrote, how the pair is read today, and its limits.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Đông Sơn bronze drums: their dating, casting techniques, star motifs, Lac birds and frog figures, and what these reveal about ancient Vietnamese beliefs.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Buddhist revival in Vietnam from the 1920s: three regional associations, their journals, and the books of Trần Trọng Kim and Phan Văn Hùm.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs How did Hanoians celebrate Tết from the early 20th century to today? From Hàng Lược flower market and offering trays to ration coupons and the market now.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot The World is card 21 in the Major Arcana, marking completion, wholeness and total achievement, with a reversed side of delay and lack of closure.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Thẩm Trúc Nhưng, a Qing geomancy master of the Huyền Không school, is named in Trạch vận tân án as the one who published the Hoán tinh formula.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Thiệu Ung (Shao Yong, 1011 to 1077) and Hoàng Cực Kinh Thế: the image-and-number learning of the Song and the cycle of nguyên, hội, vận, thế.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology How do Hoàng Thường and Hàm Chương's Tử Vi khảo luận, Vân Đằng Thái Thứ Lang's Tử Vi đẩu số tân biên and Nguyễn Phát Lộc's Tử Vi tổng hợp differ?
Updated 25 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching In Mai Hoa Dịch Số, the trigram without the moving line is ti (the querent) and the trigram with the moving line is yong (the matter).
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The 1010 Edict on the Relocation of the Capital describes Đại La as the center of heaven and earth, with the posture of a coiling dragon and crouching tiger.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Trúc Lâm Yên Tử school founded by Trần Nhân Tông: its three patriarchs and the idea of cư trần lạc đạo, living in the world yet glad in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the detailed symbolism and deep meaning of The Moon tarot card, from its imagery and symbols to its interpretation in readings.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Philosophy of science The numerology system that reads core numbers from names and birth dates took shape in America in the early 20th century with L. Dow Balliett.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The Tam Hợp Trang Sinh water method reads water by direction: receive water at the Trang Sinh palace, discharge it at the Tuyet palace.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui In 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 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The six I Ching line positions carry labels such as de wei, de zhong, ying, bi, cheng and qi, shown in a position table.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Thấu can is a stem exposed among the four pillars; thông căn is a stem rooted in a branch. Together they show whether that stem has real strength.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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