Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Khao Le The Linh Hoang Sa ceremony on Lý Sơn, Quảng Ngãi honours Hoang Sa soldiers with orations and model boats set adrift before Tứ Linh boat races.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Đào Hoa, or Hàm Trì, is found by the year or day branch triad and always falls on Tý Ngọ Mão Dậu. See inside and outside the wall.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Hoa (Han) are one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups: where they live, their language, ancestor worship customs, and festivals like Tết Nguyên tieu.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Folk taboos Hoang Ốc is a Vietnamese folk taboo checked before building a house, sorting lunar age into six positions, three of which are considered unfavourable.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Red Dao weddings in Tả Phìn, Sa Pa, have the bride walk to the groom's house alone, with days of rituals and a horn and drum team.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs What the Tet flower villages of Sa Đéc, Cái Mơn, Mỹ Tho and An Nhơn grow, when apricot leaves are stripped, and why Sa Đéc grows on racks.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Roóng Poọc Festival of the Giáy people in Sa Pa is a spring plowing ritual with the Neu tree, nem con, tug of war and plowing contests.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Choosing dates and hours Giờ hoàng đạo are six two-hour slots a day, based on the twelve Earthly Branches and seen in folk practice as favorable for starting important work.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Western astrology Cung Hoàng Đạo is one of twelve equal divisions of the ecliptic, each tied to a constellation and used in Western astrology for personality, love and career.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Sa Trung Kim is the Na Yin for Giáp Ngọ and Ất Mùi years, a Metal element sign. It covers Five Elements meaning and personality traits.
Updated 21 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Sa Trung Thổ is the nayin for Bính Thìn and Đinh Tỵ years, tied to Earth yet carrying golden sand. It covers origin and feng shui colors.
Updated 2 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Vía Ngọc Hoàng falls on the 9th day of the first lunar month. How people worship at Chùa Ngọc Hoàng in Ho Chi Minh City, and the temple's history.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Thành Hoàng is the guardian deity believed to protect each Vietnamese village, worshipped at the communal đình. Its origins, deity types and royal decrees.
Updated 3 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection A guide to the 12 two-hour blocks of a traditional Vietnamese day, how the 6 auspicious and 6 inauspicious hours are determined, and notes on timing.
Updated 26 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Held each year at Hoa Lư Ancient Capital, Ninh Bình, this festival honors King Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, founder of Đại Cồ Việt state.
Updated 8 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos The 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Ông Hoàng Bảy, a Le Dynasty general, is worshipped at Bảo Hà Temple in Lào Cai, blending hero veneration with Mother Goddess beliefs.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Kim Hoàng paintings are Tết folk prints on red paper, lost after the 1915 flood. They are set apart from Đông Hồ and Hàng Trống.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Zodiac year taboos on building, marrying, or having a child, how Kim Lâu, Hoang Ốc, and Tam Tai are calculated by lunar age, and why methods differ.
Updated 17 Oct 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 › Feng shui Flying stars for Đinh Mùi 2027: Ngũ Hoàng in the North, Tam Sát in the West, Thái Tuế at Mùi in the Southwest, as read in Trạch vận tân án.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Chợ Củi Temple Festival in Nghi Xuân, Hà Tĩnh honours Saint Hoàng Mười and the Three Holy Mothers, and differs from Nghệ An's Ông Hoàng Mười Temple.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos Kim Lau, Hoang Ốc and Tam Tai restrictions shape the Vietnamese custom of borrowing age to pick a year for building a house.
Updated 29 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Auspicious days in December 2026: all 31 days with lunar dates, can chi, day deities, hoàng đạo and hắc đạo days and trực, and why almanacs differ.
Updated 12 Nov 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos Checking ages for building a house in 2027 Đinh Mùi: how Kim Lâu, Hoang Ốc and Tam Tai are calculated, and why an age can break one and not the others.
Updated 21 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Ông Hoàng Mười Temple Festival in Nghệ An holds its main ceremony on the 10th day of the tenth lunar month, tied to Mother Goddess worship.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Western › Astrology The tropical zodiac follows the seasons, the sidereal zodiac the stars. Precession has pushed them about 24 degrees apart, enough to change most Sun signs.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Western astrology Each Western zodiac sign has a ruling planet believed to shape its personality. Here is a table of those planets and their meaning.
Updated 1 Aug 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 › Western › Astrology The 12 zodiac signs began with Babylonian sky watching and Ptolemy's system. Precession means they no longer match the constellations.
Updated 11 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Feng shui stones Gemstones tied to each Western zodiac sign and the symbolic meanings behind them, based on Western astrological tradition blended with gemstone customs.
Updated 8 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Emperor Quang Trung (Nguyễn Huệ) led the Tây Sơn movement and crushed 290,000 Qing troops at Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa in 1789.
Updated 14 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Astrology Fire, Earth, Air and Water are the four elements that classify the 12 zodiac signs in Western astrology, each with its own energy and motivation.
Updated 25 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Rising Sign is the zodiac sign ascending on the eastern horizon at your birth. Here is how it differs from the Sun sign.
Updated 21 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology A Sun Sign comes from the Sun's position at your birth in the tropical zodiac, which differs from the actual constellation position.
Updated 3 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Explore the cultural significance, rituals, and uniqueness of traditional boat racing festivals across Vietnam, from Kiến Giang river to other regions.
Updated 31 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures The Nguyễn Trung Trực Memorial Festival in Kiên Giang runs each year from the 26th to 28th of the 8th lunar month, honoring the hero who died in 1868.
Updated 1 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
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