What does Phạm Đình Hổ say about whether the ancients chose land when burying their dead?
In Vũ trung tùy bút, Phạm Đình Hổ holds that in former times burial did not involve choosing sandy ground or consulting phong thủy to place a grave, not even for the sages. He says a dutiful son simply chose a high, dry place to bury his parent so the remains would rest peacefully, and if divination was used at all, it was only to avoid places that would later become walls, roads, or to avoid fire, water and robbers intruding. Many other opinions hold that this was only his personal view, since history records many imperial tombs whose terrain was chosen with great care.
Combining death anniversaries into one day is a practical choice for families whose children work far away. Here is what is reasonable and what to watch for.
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.
Đinh Mùi 2027 in Bát Tự: the year pillar starts at Start of Spring on 4 Feb 2027, Ten Gods of the stem Đinh for ten Day Masters, and Mùi's branch relations.
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Hoàn giáp is when the birth stem-branch year returns after 60 years. Born Đinh Mùi 1967: 60 by reckoned age in 2026, hoàn giáp and 60 by Western age in 2027.
Having a child in 2027 Đinh Mùi, nạp âm Thiên Hà Thủy: read parent compatibility by can chi, nạp âm, tam hợp and lục hợp, with notes on the method's limits.
The twelve trực, from Kiến and Trừ to Khai and Bế, form a twelve-day cycle for judging each day, rooted in old calendars and the Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư.
Goat year meeting Đinh Mùi 2027: table of nạp âm, tuổi mụ, ruling stars, Kim Lâu, Tam tai for each birth year from 1943 to 2015, with where schools differ.
Spirit chronicles and imperial edicts show how villages and the state shaped the Thành Hoàng, and why Southern communal houses worship other origins too.
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Large meta-analyses find no link between moon phase and crime or birth counts. For sleep, the evidence remains contested and depends on light exposure.
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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.
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The twelve double-hours of each day across the sixty-day stem-branch cycle, marking which are auspicious. Sixty times twelve is seven hundred and twenty rows, one full cycle.
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.
456 prayers, orations, petitions and repentance verses in use, in print and online in Vietnam, one text per row with its rite type, part of the rite, region, tradition, text family, variants and fill-in slots. The wording is kept in Vietnamese as the source gives it; 348 texts carry the name and address of the source page, 108 are collected texts whose source is not named.