Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Vietnam's 2016 Law on Belief and Religion separates belief from religion, yet researchers still debate whether Mother Goddess Worship is a religion.
Updated 28 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Practitioners describe căn đồng as a spirit root that forces the trình đồng rite, while anthropologists read it as rebuilding self and social position.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Year-opening bud picking is the Vietnamese custom of taking a small green branch from a temple for luck. Today many ask for lộc or buy salt instead.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Phường Đúc bronze casting village in Hue has a 400-year history, known for worship items and bells made through mold making and bronze pouring.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Origins of Thiên Đức, Nguyệt Đức and Thiên Cương in day-selection calendars, traced through the Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Discover Mộc Đức star, one of the three lucky stars in Nine Luminaries: its influence, worship ritual, best time, and notes for men and women.
Updated 14 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Phúc Đức is the tenth star of the Thái Tuế cycle in Vietnamese Tử Vi, nine palaces from the birth-year branch. Placement and what four books say.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › The twelve zodiac animals Horse (Ngọ) in the Vietnamese zodiac: personality traits, the Fire element, the Dần-Ngọ-Tuất harmony trio and the Tý-Ngọ-Mão-Dậu clash group.
Updated 27 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Long Đức is a star of the Thái Tuế ring in Vietnamese Tử Vi. See how it is placed from the birth-year Branch and what four Vietnamese books say.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Northern and Central Vietnam stress ancestral offerings and the pest-killing ritual on Đoan Ngọ, while the South keeps things simpler.
Updated 10 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Mộc Dục in the Trường Sinh Cycle: its origin, how it works, its meaning at the 12 stages, and its effect on each palace in the Zi Wei chart.
Updated 1 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Tết Đoan Ngọ worship tray guide: offerings like fermented rice and tro cakes, step-by-step arrangement following regional customs, plus safety notes.
Updated 27 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Trần Hưng Đạo, the general who led Đại Việt against the Mongols three times, became Đức Thánh Trần, a worshipped saint honoured at temples such as Kiếp Bạc.
Updated 22 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The Wu (Ngọ) direction in feng shui sits due south, spans 172.5 to 187.5 degrees and belongs to the Fire element, symbolizing brightness, fame and wisdom.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zodiac animals The Dần, Ngọ and Tuất triple harmony group is the Fire trio in the 12 zodiac animals, tied to the Earthly Branches and the Five Elements.
Updated 17 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Tết Đoan Ngọ falls at noon on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, when folk belief says yang energy peaks. The bug-killing custom and ancestor worship.
Updated 15 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Zodiac animals The Four Clashing Signs Ty, Ngo, Mao and Dau form two opposing pairs on the Earthly Branch cycle, shaped by the five elements and yin-yang rules.
Updated 19 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Tết Đoan Ngọ on 5/5 lunar: what to offer, whom to worship, how the three regions' trays differ, plus the kill-insects custom and worship hour.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Đồng Bằng Temple Festival runs from the 20th to 26th of the eighth lunar month in Hưng Yên, honoring King Father Bát Hải Động Đình.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Japan's 1966 Bính Ngọ year saw births fall about 15% on a belief that girls born then harmed husbands. Vietnam's 2026 data gap remains.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Ngô Quyền, the 938 Battle of Bạch Đằng, and the journey from Từ Lương Xâm to the new temple in Cổ Loa, showing the gratitude of later generations.
Updated 12 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Ok Om Bok is the Khmer moon worship festival in Southern Vietnam, with home and pagoda rituals and the Ghe Ngo boat race in Trà Vinh.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites A practical guide to Vietnamese wedding rites: the order of dạm ngõ, ăn hỏi, sính lễ and bride procession, plus a monthly task schedule.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Ngũ Xã bronze casting village in Hanoi has over 400 years of history, known for sophisticated techniques and artworks of Thăng Long spirit.
Updated 24 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Trà Đông bronze casting village in Thanh Hóa, over 1,000 years old, keeps hereditary secrets of clay mold making and alloy blending.
Updated 23 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Đại Bái village in Bắc Ninh is the cradle of bronze casting in Northern Vietnam, with about 1000 years of history and refined engraving art.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The Palace of Fortune and Virtue in Zi Wei Dou Shu reflects ancestral blessings, inner nature, and the capacity to enjoy fortune.
Updated 29 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zodiac animals People born in the Year of the Horse are seen as free, enthusiastic and dynamic. This folk portrait covers their intelligence, generosity and impulsiveness.
Updated 13 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zodiac animals The Horse and Goat Six Harmony pair in Eastern belief: Fire generating Earth, Yin-Yang balance, and harmony in marriage and business cooperation.
Updated 21 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Bronze casting for worship in Lộng Thượng, Y Yen and Đại Bái: how three villages keep a centuries-old craft alive against industrial pressure.
Updated 27 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Zodiac animals The Ox and Horse Six Harm pair in the Chinese zodiac: its origins, the traits behind the clash, and how it affects relationships.
Updated 18 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Ten Wings (Thập Dực) are ten commentaries on the I Ching: Thoán, Tượng, Hệ Từ, Văn Ngôn, Tự Quái, Thuyết Quái, Tạp Quái.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
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
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Trạng Trình Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm was a 16th century cultural celebrity. His temple in Vĩnh Bảo, Hải Phòng, is a special national relic.
Updated 4 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Tết in Sài Gòn: the Nguyễn Huệ flower market from 1960 and flower street from 2004, the flower boats of Bình Đông wharf, and how families keep Tết.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The Cold Food Festival on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month became a Vietnamese day for offering bánh trôi and bánh chay to ancestors.
Updated 9 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Đọi Tam drum village in Hà Nam has made drums for over 1,000 years, using buffalo skin and jackfruit wood and an artisan's ear for sound.
Updated 1 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Other Hỉ Thần is a symbolic star in BaZi (Four Pillars of Destiny) that brings joy, happy events and favorable circumstances to the native.
Updated 21 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63) is the only hexagram with all six lines in correct position and paired. It teaches small success and a good start but chaotic end.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Từ Đạo Hạnh, Nguyễn Minh Không and Dương Không Lộ in Lĩnh Nam chích quái are tales of wonder about three monks of the Lý era, told as tales.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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Open data 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.
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