Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiThe Four Symbols guard the huye: Thanh Long left, Bach Ho right, Huyen Vu behind, Chu Tuoc in front. This piece covers their shapes and the minh duong layers.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipWorship in Nghe An through three studies: ancestral rites at lineage halls, the three temples of Kim Lũy village, and đền Cuông, with lunar festival dates.
Updated 6 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › PsychologyStudies in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Asian-American communities find Dragon-year children score slightly higher.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesThe Si La people live in Muong Te, Lai Chau, speak a Tibeto-Burman language, worship ancestors, and hold the altar rite, New Year and new rice festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresThe legend of Linh Son Thanh Mau centers on Ly Thi Thien Huong, canonized under the Nguyen dynasty, and the festivals at Ba Den Mountain.
Updated 25 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresĐại Việt sử ký toàn thư opens with the Hồng Bàng era: Kinh Dương Vương, named Lộc Tục, and the realm of Xích Quỷ. The Hán text set beside later histories.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › RegionsRed River Delta culture centres on village life, communal houses, pagodas, village gates and worship. A close look at Duong Lam, Phu Luu and Phuc Xa.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional craftsThe 100-year-old Phia Thap incense craft of the Nung An people in Cao Bang uses natural materials and a fully handmade process.
Updated 21 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe Nang Hai Festival of the Tay people in Cao Bang is a national intangible cultural heritage honoring the Moon Mother and her 12 fairy daughters.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyLộ Bàng Thổ is the nay am of Canh Ngo and Tan Mui years in the Sexagenary Cycle, part of the Earth element in Zi Wei Dou Shu.
Updated 23 Jun 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyHong Loan is one of the Four Peach Blossoms in Zi Wei Dou Shu, a benevolent star governing weddings, marriage and joyful events.
Updated 30 Jun 2026Traditional systems
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 › Western › Feng shui stonesExplore the meanings of the most popular quartz types in crystal traditions: clear quartz, rose quartz, amethyst, and citrine.
Updated 31 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsLearn about the Buddhist origins of Vu Lan on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, the legend of Mục Kiền Liên, filial piety, and the rose-pinning ceremony.
Updated 30 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram Phong Son Tiem No. 53 in the I Ching speaks of gradual advance in proper order, shown through the wild goose passing six stages.
Updated 26 Sept 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 › Vietnam › Folk taboosThe Hoang Ốc count used before building a house in Vietnam: the six positions and why the digit-sum shortcut gives the same answer.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › PsychologyEvidence from Taiwan's futures exchange and IPO data shows that choosing prices and tickers by lucky numbers comes with lower returns.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe Rain Praying Festival in Hung Yen honours the Four Dharma Goddesses with palanquin processions and the Danh Trang game, a wet-rice farming ritual.
Updated 2 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam ThứcA cast Qi Men chart reads fortune and misfortune through four pattern groups, including Ten Stems mutual clash and Tam Tra with Cuu Don.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyVan Xuong in Zi Wei Dou Shu: its origin, nature, favorable and unfavorable positions, and meaning for intelligence, exams and career.
Updated 27 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › PsychologyPrices ending in 8, 88 or 168 may attract buyers. Research on superstition and price clustering shows lucky numbers can work as a pricing tool.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk divinationCan Kinh Dịch, Tarot, or Tử Vi truly find you a partner? This analysis weighs their origins, reading methods, and experimental evidence so you can decide.
Updated 7 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › RegionsMekong Delta culture grew from reclaiming southern lands and life along its rivers and canals, with floating markets and over 1,230 festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › PsychologyStudies in Vancouver, Auckland, Singapore, Hong Kong and Russia show buyers pay more or less for house and floor numbers.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiDịch Mã lookup by Tam Hợp: a 12-branch table, why Mã always falls on Dần Thân Tỵ Hợi, and the schools that root it on the year or day branch.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresThe story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ, the sack of one hundred eggs, as recorded in Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư and Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca, and what is myth.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHỏa Thủy Vị Tế is hexagram 64, the last of the I Ching, its six lines out of position yet paired. Its texts show why it ends on 'not yet complete'.
Updated 26 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefVietnamese travellers use departure dates, vehicle blessings and safety amulets to manage risk on uncertain roads, an anthropologist finds.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendarLunar to solar conversion uses no fixed addition table. It relies on the new moon point, major solar terms and legal time zones, so it differs year by year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram 31, Trạch Sơn Hàm, opens the I Ching's Lower Canon and traces mutual attraction through six lines, from the big toe to the tongue.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiVan Xuong Quy Nhan is found by day stem to yield one branch, but its weight depends on thap than and position, not a promise of exam success.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingCanonized in 135 BCE, the I Ching was reread by Song scholars along image-number and meaning-principle lines, then spread to Vietnam and the West.
Updated 28 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of scienceAnthropologists 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 › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsSitting tug of war at Tran Vu Temple and bamboo tug of war in Huu Chap village are harvest-praying rituals, both UNESCO-listed in 2015.
Updated 23 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingFour ways to cast an I Ching hexagram, yarrow stalks, three coins, number-based and time-based, and why each gives different moving-line odds.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
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 beliefVietnam's 'tam linh' shifted from 20th-century dictionary meanings, and researchers now define 'spiritual tourism' through the post-Doi Moi religious market.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingLiu Yao timing rules from Zeng Shan Buo Yi chapter 26D: how static lines, moving lines, excessive vigor and void in the cycle each find their day.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyThien Hi is one of the Four Peach Blossoms in Zi Wei Dou Shu, a Gui Water star of joyous events that can turn misfortune into fortune.
Updated 22 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyExplore the meaning and interpretation of the Spouse Palace in Zi Wei Dou Shu: position, major stars, peach blossom stars and factors affecting marriage.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesThe 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.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
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