Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Tản Viên Sơn Thánh, or Sơn Tinh, leads the Four Immortals and symbolizes the conquest of nature and floods, with over 100 relics around Ba Vì mountain.
Updated 31 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Thượng sơn hạ thủy in Huyền Không phi tinh: what the pattern is, which sitting and facing directions fall into it by period, and what the old book says.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Northern Kinh households once set outdoor incense altars to Sơn thần and Thần Hổ, some building shrines to Mộc tinh at old tree bases.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Vượng sơn vượng hướng in Huyền Không phi tinh: why it ranks as the best pattern, and why no main facing direction achieves it in Period 9.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Cửu Tinh in Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp are nine stars from Thiên Bồng to Thiên Anh, each tied to a palace and element, while Bát Thần are eight spirits.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Build a Xuan Kong Flying Star chart: place the period star in the center, fly it along the Luo Shu, set the mountain and facing stars.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Văn Xương Quý Nhân 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 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Fu Yin, Fan Yin, He Shi, Lian Zhu San Ban Gua and Qi Xing Da Jie: how each forms on the Xuan Kong Flying Star chart and why it is auspicious or inauspicious.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Mars (Hỏa Tinh) is one of the Six Malefic Stars in Tử Vi Đẩu Số. See its origin, nature, meaning in each house, and how it combines with other stars.
Updated 8 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Gen Mountain in the 24 mountain directions: its Earth element, Northeast palace, and meaning for house direction and altar placement.
Updated 19 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Feng shui Xun Mountain in the 24 Mountains system sits in the Xun palace (Southeast) and belongs to Wood. Here is its meaning and its combinations.
Updated 26 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Chen direction in the 24 feng shui directions: its Earth element, Zhen trigram link, and what this direction means for career and wealth.
Updated 22 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Tan Mountain in the 24-mountain feng shui system: its Metal element, western position, and use with Hai and Mao mountains to assess career and fame.
Updated 1 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Feng shui Xuan Kong Flying Stars is a school of feng shui that uses the nine stars flying through time and directions to assess auspiciousness for dwellings and graves.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Gui Mountain in the 24 feng shui directions sits in the Gen palace, linked to the Water element and spanning 15 to 30 degrees.
Updated 22 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Feng shui Feng Shui is a traditional body of knowledge about arranging living spaces in harmony with landscape and energy flow, based on yin-yang and the five elements.
Updated 11 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Feng shui 24 Sơn Hướng is a system of 24 positions on the feng shui compass, each spanning 15 degrees, used to determine the orientation of houses and graves.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Chou Mountain in the 24 Mountains: its position at 30 degrees, Earth element, and how to judge fortune when sitting or facing Chou in feng shui.
Updated 27 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Dinh mountain sits in the Xun trigram, Wood element, Yin nature, between 157. 5 and 172. 5 degrees on the feng shui compass.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Khon Mountain in the 24 mountain directions: its Yin Earth element, Shen-Zi-Chen trine group, and reading sitting Khon facing Gen.
Updated 15 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Explore the Ty mountain in the 24 mountain directions: position, element, trigram, how to determine it, meanings, and good/bad combinations.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Bing mountain direction sits in the Li trigram and belongs to the Fire element in the 24 mountain directions of feng shui.
Updated 15 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Nham mountain sits in the North of the 24 mountain directions, tied to the Water element and the Kan trigram, symbolizing beginnings, wisdom and flexibility.
Updated 7 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Shen mountain direction in the 24 mountain directions: its Water element, Kun palace position, and use in assessing house and grave orientations.
Updated 5 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Geng mountain in the 24 mountain directions: its Metal element, western position, compass degrees, and meaning for house and tomb feng shui.
Updated 31 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Dan Mountain sits at 60 degrees in the 24 feng shui directions, a Wood element point tied to beginnings and growth, with its own Yang energy and hours.
Updated 3 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 48, Thủy Phong Tỉnh, the Well, teaches that the village may change but the well does not, nourishing people without moving.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Tử Vi (Zi Wei Dou Shu) Chinh tinh are the 14 core stars of a Tử Vi chart, including Tử Vi, Thiên Phủ and Thái Dương, and they shape each palace's personality.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Western astrology An astrological aspect is the angle two planets or points form on a chart, used to read their interaction and the harmony or tension between them.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 39 Thủy Sơn Kiển describes a time when the road ahead is blocked, covering the Judgment, the six lines, and the lessons of hardship.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority belief The Tày of Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn and Tuyên Quang keep Then singing, the tính lute, and the Lồng Tồng festival, a heritage UNESCO inscribed in 2019.
Updated 19 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Linh Tinh, one of the Six Malefic Stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu, brings suddenness, volatility and a hot temper. Here is its meaning across the palaces.
Updated 4 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Nghe culture spans Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh, home to UNESCO-listed vi and giam folk singing and a long tradition of scholarly pursuit.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology How the Phi Tinh school reads Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi: Kỵ nhập, Kỵ xung, Lộc and Kỵ in one palace, and stacked Kỵ, following Từ Tăng Sinh's book.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Glossary Nhật Nguyệt is the Sino-Vietnamese pair for sun and moon, symbolizing yin and yang, time, and the cosmos in East Asian culture.
Updated 16 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Vietnamese Buddhism over nearly twenty centuries: the Luy Lâu centre, fusion with local beliefs, the Lý and Trần flourishing.
Updated 22 Oct 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
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Thiền uyển tập anh records lives and verses of Vietnamese Chan masters of the Lý and Trần eras; scholars now read it as a deliberate arrangement.
Updated 12 Oct 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 › Eastern › I Ching Nguyên thần generates the Dụng thần, kỵ thần conquers it, cừu thần conquers the nguyên thần and feeds the kỵ thần, as Tăng san bốc dịch defines them.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Per Lục Nhâm đại toàn: Nguyên Thủ has one khóa with upper overcoming lower, Trùng Thẩm one with lower overcoming upper; Tri Nhất and Thiệp Hại have several.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Tài and Thiên Thọ are placed from the Mệnh and Thân palaces by year branch. The two Earth stars meet when Mệnh and Thân share a palace.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
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