📍 Tây Thiên Upper Temple, Tây Thiên, Đại Đình Commune, Phú Thọ (formerly Tam Đảo, Vĩnh Phúc) 📅 Days 15–17 of lunar month 2 🏛 Traditional festival 🕰 2027: no official dates yet; by custom it falls on 22 March 2027 to 24 March 2027 📚 3 sources Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Tây Thiên Festival runs from the 15th to the 17th of the second lunar month in Đại Đình Commune, Phú Thọ Province, honoring National Mother Lăng Thị Tiêu.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Cao Đài Founding Day marks the 1926 Hoang khai Dai dao Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ, held around the tenth lunar month full moon at Tây Ninh Holy See.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food Five-color sticky rice is essential to the Tay people's Lồng Tồng festival, its colors drawn from natural leaves, roots and fruits with five-element meaning.
Updated 4 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
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
Dictionary › Feng shui Tây Tứ Trạch is one of two house groups in Bát Trạch feng shui, with four orientations, Can, Khon, Can and Doai, suited to the Tây Tứ Mệnh group.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The Nàng Hai Festival of the Tay people in Cao Bằng is a national intangible cultural heritage honoring the Moon Mother and her 12 fairy daughters.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Lồng Tồng, the Tay people's first plowing festival of spring, features rites to the Agriculture God and folk games wishing for a good year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals The Heavenly Stems are ten symbols in the Stem-Branch system, used to record days, months, years and hours in East Asian calendrics.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Làm Chay Festival in Tầm Vu, Tây Ninh runs on the 15th and 16th of the first lunar month, with rituals welcoming Ong Tieu and more.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The Lantern Festival in Chợ Lớn, a national intangible cultural heritage, centers on the belief in Thiên Hậu Thánh Mẫu at ancient assembly halls.
Updated 20 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Hình and Thiên Diêu stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu: their origins, nature, and detailed meanings, plus how they act with other stars.
Updated 5 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Thương sits in the Nô Bộc palace and Thiên Sứ in Tật Ách. Placement, elements and how four Vietnamese Tử Vi books read them in fortune periods.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The Quan Làng singing ritual in Tay weddings has three stages, Don, Nop and Dua, and is recognized as a national heritage.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Tay weddings move through proposal, engagement, Tet visit and the wedding, with the matrilocal custom of a bride staying with her mother until pregnancy.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Tây Nguyên culture centres on the gong space, the rông house and the matrilineal system. The article analyses their origins and how they are changing today.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Tay are Vietnam's largest ethnic minority. They live in northeastern valleys, speak a Tay-Thai language, worship ancestors, and hold long tong festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Cồng has a central boss, chiêng does not; both are brass gongs forming the Tây Nguyên cồng chiêng cultural space UNESCO inscribed in 2005.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Quan and Thiên Phúc are Earth auxiliary stars placed by the birth year's heavenly stem, not the branch or hour, with tables and points of disagreement.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Keo Hành Thiện Pagoda Festival in Ninh Bình falls in mid-Ninth lunar month, honoring Zen Master Dương Không Lộ with boat racing and folk games.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Khốc counts backward and Thiên Hư counts forward from the Ngọ palace in a Tý year, so the two stars stay symmetric across the Tý Ngọ axis.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hà Đồ arranges birth and completion numbers by direction and element, while Lạc Thư is a 3x3 square where every row, column and diagonal sums to 15.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Lồng 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Lục Nhâm is an ancient divination method in the Tam Thức group. Learn how Đại Lục Nhâm builds a chart: Thien Ban, Tứ Khóa, Tam Truyền, and Thiên Tướng.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The Tay new rice festival on the 10th day of the tenth lunar month in Thái Nguyên includes family offerings and a village ceremony.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Thiên Đồng is the Blessing Star, governing ease and gentleness. Explore its meaning, dignity, and the paradox of hardship turning to blessing.
Updated 12 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs New 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Thiên Tướng in Purple Star Astrology governs authority by seal, loyal support and fairness, and reads the Life and Career palaces.
Updated 5 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Explore Thiên Phủ in Purple Star Astrology: its treasury-of-heaven origin, steady nature, dignity meanings, and readings for Life, Wealth, and Career palaces.
Updated 30 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Thiên Lương in Purple Star Astrology: its blessing and longevity origin, principled benevolent nature, and readings for the Life and Career palaces.
Updated 2 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Explore Thiên Cơ in Purple Star Astrology: its origin, agile intellectual nature, dignity meanings, and readings for the Life, Career, and Marriage palaces.
Updated 26 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Mã (Heavenly Horse) in Zi Wei Dou Shu: its origins in ancient astronomy, placement by birth year, and its meaning of movement, change and opportunities.
Updated 14 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The Tày and Nùng buffalo celebration on 6/6 lunar honors the buffalo after transplanting and prays for healthy herds and a bountiful harvest.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Nguyễn dynasty Khâm Thiên Giám compiled and issued calendars and logged heavenly signs; Đại Nam thực lục records its ranks.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Hỉ is one of the Four Peach Blossoms in Zi Wei Dou Shu, a Gui Water star of joyous events that can turn misfortune into fortune.
Updated 22 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Khôi is one of Zi Wei Dou Shu's Six Auspicious Stars, governing scholarly honor, fame and intelligence. Its traits and combinations are explored.
Updated 2 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Diêu is one of the Four Peach Blossom Stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu, a malignant star tied to charm, romance and fickleness.
Updated 13 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Explore the profound meaning of the Palace of Travel (Thiên Di) in Zi Wei Dou Shu: a symbol of social environment, external career, and relationships.
Updated 9 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Eastern › BaZi Heavenly Talent in BaZi Ten Gods: its meaning, traits, and role in destiny analysis, plus how it interacts with other gods in chart reading.
Updated 7 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Yên Tử Festival honours Emperor-Buddha Trần Nhân Tông, founder of the Trúc Lâm Zen sect, with its rituals and spiritual meaning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Da Nang's largest Buddhist festival, Quán Thế Âm at Ngũ Hành Sơn runs each second lunar month and is national intangible cultural heritage.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Phủ Dầy Festival in Nam Định, held in the third lunar month, honors Saint Mother Liễu Hạnh with Chau Van singing and Hau Dong mediumship.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Katê Festival in Ninh Thuận centers on the ceremony of receiving Goddess Pô Nưgar's attire, kept by the Raglai and brought down to the Chăm.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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