Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Lộc Tồn is the Yin Earth wealth star heading the 12-star Lộc Tồn cycle, always flanked by Kình Dương and Đà La. Here is how it is placed by birth stem.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Vietnamese astrology Tiểu Hao, a Hao phá auxiliary star, governs dissipation, movement and money volatility. This analyses its positions, combinations and correct reading.
Updated 3 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship Hoành phi is a horizontal plaque above the family altar, câu đối parallel sentences on side columns or walls, honoring ancestors and praising their merits.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Tang and Song records on Lý Hư Trung and Từ Tử Bình show Tử Bình has layered origins, with source texts like Lý Hư Trung mệnh thư altered over time.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Khâm Thiên Tứ Hóa is a Tử Vi school that reads charts through Lộc, Quyền, Khoa and Kỵ, flying transformations from each palace's stem.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Hỷ Thần in Tử Vi is the eighth star of the Lộc Tồn ring, counted forward or backward from Lộc Tồn. Placement table and meaning in Vietnamese Tử Vi books.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Hám Long Kinh and Nghi Long Kinh, traditionally attributed to Dương Quân Tùng: how they read dragon veins, the nine stars, and true versus branch dragons.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Đại Hao in Tử Vi is not merely a malefic star. This analysis explains its dissipating nature, how it acts by palace, and when it forms a good configuration.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology A career reading on a Tử Vi chart centres on the Mệnh, Tài Bạch and Quan Lộc triangle, the Phu Thê palace opposite, plus Thiên Di and Phúc Đức.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Bà Chúa Kho of the Ly Dynasty, her legends, the year-opening custom of borrowing luck and the rituals at her temple in Bắc Ninh.
Updated 4 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy The Money Line in palmistry is a mix of minor lines, mainly the Fate line, Head line and Mount of the Moon branches, and can suggest financial potential.
Updated 17 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The Tử Vi Đẩu Số Toàn Thư circulated in the Ming era, its preface crediting La Hồng Tiên with compiling it from works attributed to Hi Di Trần Đoàn.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Philip Taylor links the Sam Mountain pilgrimage boom to the Đổi Mới market economy, where traders borrow fortune from Bà Chúa Xứ as sacred capital.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The Tử Phủ Vũ Tướng set in Vietnamese Tử Vi: its four stars, how they are placed, when the pattern forms and how three manuals read it.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Tết in Huế runs from the twelfth lunar month to the seventh of the first: the Thướng tiêu rite, đạp đất, vegetarian offerings and many cakes and preserves.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Death anniversary rituals in Vietnamese culture remember ancestors and bring families together. Organization should suit each family, staying simple and warm.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Tử Vi Đẩu Số has many branches, including Tam Hợp, Tứ Hóa, Trung Châu and Tân Biên. Each reads one chart differently through star sets and Tứ Hóa placement.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Hiệp Kỷ Biện Phương Thư records Nguyệt Kỵ and rejects Dương Công kỵ nhật. An analysis of the original Chinese text, separating old rules from folk beliefs.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Face reading is the traditional Eastern practice of observing facial features, hands and body to infer personality and destiny.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The 2nd house in astrology covers personal finances, material values and income, plus how planets there shape your relationship with money.
Updated 15 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Việt Bắc and Northeast Vietnam are two names with different scopes. This article analyses Then singing, market fairs, village life and local variations.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Southern Vietnamese culture blends village communal houses, worship of the Lady goddesses and a vivid dialect shaped by frontier settlement.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Saju Saju is Korea's Four Pillars astrology, rooted in Chinese Bazi but with its own interpretive tradition, still used for marriage and career choices.
Updated 7 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The waning moon is the phase of decreasing light after the Full Moon, a time for release, purification, and introspection in astrology.
Updated 20 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The 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 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Feng shui stones Discover the best gemstones for Pisces, their detailed meanings, and how to choose crystals based on the five elements to enhance positive energy.
Updated 14 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Waning Crescent Moon is the last phase of the lunar cycle, a time for release, rest and recovery before a new cycle begins.
Updated 20 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The Last Quarter Moon in astrology marks a time of release and realignment, with practical notes for daily life as the cycle turns.
Updated 24 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Feng shui stones Discover gemstones suited for Gemini based on Western astrology, their meanings, and how to choose stones that align with your zodiac sign.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Zi Wei Dou Shu charts can miss real life for three reasons: faulty birth data, the reader's skill and sources, and the method's limits.
Updated 17 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The Mother Goddess Worship of Tam Phu venerates the Holy Mothers and deities of the universe, guiding people toward a practical life.
Updated 10 Jul 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 › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Hóa Lộc in the Four Transformations of Zi Wei Dou Shu: its meaning, how placement shapes its influence, and why it is not always favorable.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Ma live in Lâm Đồng and Đồng Nai, speak a Mon-Khmer language with no script, worship Yang spirits and hold a buffalo sacrifice after harvest.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The Career Palace in Zi Wei Dou Shu reflects work style and dealings with authority. Read it with the ruling Major Star and auxiliary stars.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Contagious 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 › Historical figures The Bà Triệu Temple Festival in Thanh Hóa honors heroine Triệu Thị Trinh, who led a 3rd century uprising, through rituals and community events.
Updated 18 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Teeth blackening was once a Vietnamese beauty standard; how the dye was made in Huế, who practised it, and how it faded after 1907.
Updated 12 Oct 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
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Hát xẩm is a northern Vietnamese folk singing craft dated to about the 14th century, sung at markets, village yards and on Hanoi trams.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Quan họ Bắc Ninh is call-and-response folk singing between liền anh and liền chị of twinned villages, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Celebrities Nghệ sĩ Ưu tú, a spoken drama actor long associated with the southern stage, founder of Kịch đoàn Thành Lộc
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