- 🗺Since 2025 part of Hung Yen province (Resolution 202/2025/QH15 on reorganising provinces)
- 🎎Chùa Keo Spring Festival: Days 4–8 of lunar month 1
- 🎎Trần Temple Festival (Thái Bình): Days 13–17 of lunar month 1
- 🎎Chử Đồng Tử and Tiên Dung Festival: Days 10–12 of lunar month 2
- 🎎An Xá Temple Festival: Days 1–12 of lunar month 4
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Autumn Keo Pagoda Festival in Hung Yen honors Zen Master Duong Khong Lo with palanquin processions, the frog dance and boat racing.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingThủy 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 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram 43, Trạch Thiên Quải, means resolve: five yang lines push out one yin line. Its judgments, image, and lessons on acting openly without force.
Updated 26 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › PsychologyContagious 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 › Eastern › Tam ThứcTam Thức covers Thái Ất, Lục Nhâm and Kỳ Môn. This piece traces how it reached Vietnam and asks what is history and what is legend around Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesThe Xip Xi Tet of the White Thai people in Vietnam's Northwest is a festival for children, with rituals to worship spirits and ward off disease.
Updated 13 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyQuan Phù in Tử Vi: the fifth star of the Thái Tuế cycle, four palaces clockwise from the birth-year branch, and how Vietnamese books read it.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou ShuDecode Thái Dương (Sun) star in Purple Star Astrology: origins, personality, dignity meanings, and readings for the Life, Career, and Marriage palaces.
Updated 7 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsXoe Thai is the signature folk dance of the Thai people in Vietnam's Northwest, built on six ancient Xoe dances and inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.
Updated 23 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesVietnam's Thai ethnic group includes the Black and White branches, speaks the Tay-Thai language, lives in ban-muong villages, and worships ancestors.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam ThứcCounts in Thái Ất: the host count and guest count, long and short counts, and what Thái Ất kim kính thức kinh calls harmonious and not.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou ShuNhật Nguyệt pairs Thai Duong and Thai Am in Tu Vi, two stars whose meaning shifts with palace position and birth hour. Position decides how they read.
Updated 16 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyQuan Phù of the Thái Tuế ring and Quan Phủ of the Lộc Tồn ring: how each is placed and what four Vietnamese Tử Vi books say they mean.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyExplore the Sun Star (Thai Duong) in the Nine Luminaries: why it is considered auspicious, its impact on career and wealth, and the proper ritual to honor it.
Updated 6 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyThai Phụ and Phong Cáo in Vietnamese Tử Vi: placement by birth hour or from Văn Khúc gives one result, with meanings as each book records them.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou ShuThái Âm, the Moon Star in Purple Star Astrology: its lunar origin, gentle inward nature, and readings for Life, Wealth, and Marriage palaces.
Updated 27 Jun 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresNang Han, the White Thai heroine who disguised herself as a man to lead 16 Thai regions against invaders, is honored in a festival each lunar year.
Updated 14 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority beliefThe Thái of Vietnam's Northwest follow animist beliefs with guardian spirits and hold the Xên Bản Xên Mường rites and Hạn Khuống festival.
Updated 10 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresLe Loi led the Lam Son uprising from 1418 to 1427, expelling the Ming and founding the Later Le dynasty, honoured still at the Lam Kinh Festival.
Updated 24 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Then Kin Pang Festival of the Thai people in Lai Chau honors Then masters and features solemn rituals plus folk games, held since 2000.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of scienceScientific historiography treats Tu Vi, Bat Tu and Thai At as calculation techniques built on the can chi calendar and ancient astronomy.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsMuong Lo Cultural and Tourism Festival 2026 runs 1 to 7 October in Lao Cai, opening 20:00 on 2 October and marking five years of UNESCO-listed Thai Xoe.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsKin Pang Then is the early-spring rite of the White Thái, led by Then masters to thank the spirits and their disciples; it is held in Mường Lay, Điện Biên.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsBai Choi of Central Vietnam is a Tet game mixing folk singing with card draws, with about 30 cards and witty ho thai calls, inscribed by UNESCO in 2017.
Updated 23 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyMieu, Vuong, Dac, Binh and Ham are the five brightness levels of a star in Tu Vi, and they explain why the same star reads oppositely in different palaces.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyThe Thái Tuế circle has 12 stars placed clockwise from the birth year branch. Placement and readings from three Vietnamese Tử Vi books.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiLưu niên is the stem and branch of the year, Thái Tuế its ruler. How Tam Mệnh Thông Hội reads tuế vận tịnh lâm, phục ngâm and phản ngâm.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyBạch Hổ in Tử Vi sits ninth in the Thái Tuế circle, placed by the birth year branch. How to place it and what four Vietnamese Tử Vi books say.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam ThứcTam Thức is Thái Ất, Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp and Lục Nhâm: three old divination arts for affairs of state, of action and of single matters, compared.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority beliefUnder Vietnam's 2019 UNESCO dossier, Then is a Tày, Nùng and Thái ritual led by Then masters, with cầu an and giải hạn rites, songs and the đàn tính lute.
Updated 30 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiTam Long traces a dragon vein from its distant source peak through to tong son, thieu to son and phu mau son to where it settles.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyIn the 2027 Dinh Mui year, Tam Tai and Thai Tue are said to affect certain zodiac signs. Here is the calculation and where schools disagree.
Updated 17 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyTai Sui in Tu Vi and Feng Shui: its origins in Jupiter and Chinese mythology, how to find its yearly position, and what offending Tai Sui means.
Updated 21 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam ThứcThái Ất Thần Số, one of the Tam Thức arts, read the fate of the state and natural disasters: the board, Host and Guest, and the accumulated-year count.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsChèo is the folk musical theatre of the Red River Delta, played on a mat in the communal house yard, with old plays such as Quan Âm Thị Kính.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram 11, Earth over Heaven Tai, has inner Qian and outer Kun, heaven and earth in harmony. It covers the judgment, image, six line texts and commentaries.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresLy Thuong Kiet led the Ly Dynasty victory on the Nhu Nguyet River line in 1077, and his temple in Tam Giang, Yen Phong, Bac Ninh honors that legacy.
Updated 20 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsTết 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 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Dong Bang Temple Festival runs from the 20th to 26th of the eighth lunar month in Hung Yen, honoring King Father Bat Hai Dong Dinh.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsKeo Hanh Thien Pagoda Festival in Ninh Binh falls in mid-Ninth lunar month, honoring Zen Master Duong Khong Lo with boat racing and folk games.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram Heaven and Earth Pi (No. 12) puts Qian above Kun, so the two qi never meet and stagnation follows, the exact opposite of Tai.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
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