Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesThe first outing and calligraphy of the new year are Vietnamese luck-bringing customs. See how times and directions are chosen by lunar calendar and deities.
Updated 15 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesComparing Lunar New Year of the Kinh, Chol Chnam Thmay of the Khmer, and ethnic groups with their own calendars: timing, offerings, rituals, and names.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk divinationDrawing 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 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › PsychologyContagious magic rests on two laws: contact transfers properties, and similarity means shared essence. Rozin's 1986 experiments show they still shape us.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customsNào Pê Chầu, the Mông New Year, falls a month before Tết Nguyên Đán: sweeping the soot, the Xử Ka offering, the year-end meal and fetching new water.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › TarotNew Year Tarot spreads include 12-month layouts and themed spreads, with meanings for each position and a reflective, non-superstitious approach.
Updated 16 Aug 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date and hour selectionYear-end dates for the gathering, altar cleaning, debt repayment and New Year opening: lunar calendar principles and flexible use without superstition.
Updated 16 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsVietnamese Lunar New Year customs: the Kitchen Gods send-off, New Year's Eve rites, first-footing, and lucky money, with the meaning behind each.
Updated 5 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesChol Chnam Thmay is the Khmer New Year, held in mid-April over three days with rituals like the Maha Sangkran procession and bathing the Buddha.
Updated 5 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › RegionsTet customs in Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam share roots but differ in dishes and rituals, from banh chung to bitter melon soup.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional foodThe Hue Tet feast blends royal essence with folk culture, shaped by a philosophy of frugality, elegance, harmony and transformation.
Updated 28 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsRija Nagar is the main new year rite of the Brahmanist Chăm: a prayer for good rain and harvest and a sending off of the misfortunes of the old year.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesAsking for calligraphy at the Temple of Literature is a beautiful Vietnamese Tet custom, showing respect for knowledge and sending new year wishes.
Updated 16 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional foodDuck, squid, banana, shrimp, snail and fertilized duck eggs are avoided at new year in Vietnamese folk belief, which links them to bad luck.
Updated 13 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsBunpimay, the Lao New Year in Vietnam, also called Bun Huột Nặm: offerings to the spirits, wrist-thread tying and water splashing in mid April.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customsWhich peoples in Vietnam keep their own New Year apart from Tết Nguyên Đán? The Mông, Hà Nhì, Khmer, Chăm and others, as reported in the press.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsHow Lunar New Year among the Hoa of Chợ Lớn differs from Vietnamese Tết: Kitchen God send-off, offerings, bánh tổ, assembly halls, visiting order.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk divinationKieu fortune telling at Tet uses verses from Nguyen Du's Tale of Kieu to predict outcomes. A randomly opened verse is read as an omen for the year.
Updated 10 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customsNew Year gift-giving among the Tày and Nùng of Cao Bằng and Hà Giang and lì xì in a Hoa family in Chợ Lớn: who gives to whom, with what, and when.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesFirst-day Tet travel for 2027: how to choose the hour and direction, prepare offerings, and follow the route, plus why sources disagree on the calculations.
Updated 21 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsFirst-footing is an old Vietnamese Tet custom: the first person to enter a home after midnight is believed to carry the year's fortune.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesWhere the custom of a Lunar New Year opening day comes from, and what people weigh up when picking a date and preparing offerings.
Updated 17 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › RegionsLồng Tồng of the Tày, highland first-furrow festivals, and the Kinh tịch điền rite compared: who organizes each and how the core rite differs.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsKhai bút, the Vietnamese custom of writing the first words of the new year: its legend of teacher Chu Văn An, when people do it, and what to write.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesA guide to preparing New Year's Eve offerings, arranging the outdoor and indoor trays by Vietnamese custom, with safety notes and regional differences.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › AstrologyThe New Moon marks the start of a lunar cycle of about 29.5 days, a phase for setting intentions and beginning new projects.
Updated 26 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › NumerologyPersonal Year Number 1 in numerology starts a 9-year cycle of independence and new beginnings. See how to sow seeds for new plans and pursue your goals.
Updated 9 Jul 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe New Rice Festival of the M'Nong in the Central Highlands thanks the heavens and the rice spirit, with a buffalo sacrifice at its heart.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesTet 2027, the Lunar New Year of the Goat, starts Saturday, February 6, 2027. Public employees may get 7 days off, February 4 to 10.
Updated 16 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsThe Vietnamese saying about the first three days of Tet: day one for the father's side, day two for the mother's side, day three for one's teachers.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe New Rice Festival is when the Xo Dang people of the Central Highlands thank the gods and spirits for a bountiful harvest.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesThe New Rice Festival of the Cao Lan people in Tuyen Quang gives thanks to ancestors and nature after the harvest, with a neu tree and new rice.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesKhu Su Cha, the Ha Nhi New Rice Festival in Muong Nhe, Dien Bien, thanks ancestors with floating cakes, pig liver divination and glutinous rice pounding.
Updated 29 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesVietnam's year of festivals and Tet occasions, from Lunar New Year and the first full moon to Mid-Autumn, plus ethnic Tet traditions.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefA guide to the Vietnamese housewarming ritual (nhập trạch): the offerings and each step in order, from the auspicious date to moving in.
Updated 26 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › VietnamSouthern 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 › Western › NumerologyDiscover the meaning of Personal Year Number 9 in numerology: a cycle of closure, release, completion, and preparation for new beginnings.
Updated 14 Jul 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram 54 Lei Ze Gui Mei in the I Ching covers entering a bond without holding the initiative, with the judgment, six line texts and the Image.
Updated 26 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Kate Festival is the Cham Brahmin New Year in Ninh Thuan, held in the 7th Cham month to honor deities, kings and ancestors.
Updated 17 Jun 2026Culture and belief