Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipThe Thánh sư altar honours a craft's patron. Learn the three names, altar placement, ritual objects, and offering days per custom books.
Updated 20 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipNorthern and Southern Vietnamese family altars differ in structure, arrangement, generations honored and five-fruit tray choices.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresHeld each year at Hoa Lu Ancient Capital, Ninh Binh, this festival honors King Dinh Bo Linh, founder of Dai Co Viet state.
Updated 8 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismCáo tật thị chúng by Chan master Mãn Giác is a famous Lý-era verse: fading spring and a plum branch in the courtyard speak of impermanence.
Updated 12 Oct 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 ChingTong Ren (Union of Men), Hexagram 13 of the I Ching, joins Heaven and Fire. Its structure speaks of harmony, openness and shared purpose in cooperation.
Updated 20 Jun 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingThe Earth-Water Hexagram (Shi) in the I Ching symbolizes the commander, discipline and unity, plus its uses in management and leadership.
Updated 29 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingThe Water-Earth Bi Hexagram in the I Ching: its origins, structure, symbolic meaning, hexagram text, and uses in life, career, and relationships.
Updated 16 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesKhu Su Cha, the Ha Nhi New Rice Festival in Muong Nhe, Dien Bien, thanks ancestors with floating cakes, pig liver divination and glutinous rice pounding.
Updated 29 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresThe story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ, the sack of one hundred eggs, as recorded in Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư and Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca, and what is myth.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Tien Cong Festival on Ha Nam Island, Quang Ninh runs to the 7th day of the first lunar month, with rites of carrying the elderly.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresThe legend of Chu Dong Tu and Tien Dung, a poor man and a princess whose love story ends in deification among Vietnam's Four Immortals.
Updated 5 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipThe custom of offering a day early is called lễ tiên thường, with the main chính kỵ the next day. Its origin, distinctions and meaning.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipA Western Mekong Delta đám giỗ spans tiên thường, chánh giỗ and hậu thường. Hosting guests and giving take-home portions show a compassionate way of life.
Updated 17 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefCustom books explain the Tiền Chủ as the first owner's spirit, why many homes keep a cây hương altar in the yard, and how offerings are made.
Updated 20 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsThe post-Tet ancestor farewell rite varies by region: hóa vàng in the North, tiễn ông bà in the Center, cúng tất in the South.
Updated 17 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHa Do arranges birth and completion numbers by direction and element, while Lac Thu is a 3x3 square where every row, column and diagonal sums to 15.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › TarotExplore the symbolism and in-depth meaning of the Two of Pentacles in Tarot: balance, adaptability, prioritization, and resource management.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional foodVietnamese ancestral worship trays reflect regional character: the North favors formality, the Central region is lavish, and the South is simple yet refined.
Updated 18 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsThe ông Công ông Táo ceremony on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month sends the three Kitchen Gods to heaven to report on the family's deeds to the Jade Emperor.
Updated 17 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › TarotExplore the deep symbolism and meaning of the King of Pentacles Tarot card: imagery, personality, love, career, and practical advice.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Western › TarotExplore the symbolism and in-depth meaning of the Nine of Pentacles in Tarot: self-sufficiency, personal achievement, and independence.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Western › TarotExplore the symbolism and in-depth meaning of the 3 of Pentacles in Tarot: collaboration, craftsmanship, and the value of teamwork.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Western › TarotExplore the symbolism and in-depth meaning of the Six of Pentacles Tarot card: giving and receiving, generosity, material balance, and lessons on karma.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Western › TarotThe Knight of Pentacles Tarot card means persistence, discipline and responsibility, with advice to move slowly but surely toward long-term goals.
Updated 10 Sept 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Western › NumerologyExplore the meaning of Life Path Number 8: an ambitious, decisive personality, ideal careers, and how to balance work with love and relationships.
Updated 31 Jul 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresOld histories tell how Triệu Quang Phục withdrew to the Dạ Trạch marsh, raided the Liang army by night and later took the title Triệu Việt Vương.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingIn Liu Yao, a moving line and the changed line it turns into are read as a pair, producing hoi dau sinh, hoi dau khac, hoa tien than, hoa thoai than and more.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesLi xi is the Vietnamese New Year custom of giving lucky money in red envelopes. This article explains the origin of the term and its true meaning.
Updated 17 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › TarotLearn the meanings of the four Tarot Minor Arcana suits, Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles, and how each reflects a different area of life.
Updated 18 Jul 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle ritesMo Muong funeral verses guide the soul back to the ancestors in Muong Troi, with the Mo master as a bridge and ethical values for descendants.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › TarotThe Pentacles suit in Tarot reflects the Earth element: material life, work, money and the body. It traces patience and effort from the Ace to the Ten.
Updated 17 Aug 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiIn 968 Đinh Bộ Lĩnh made Hoa Lư the capital of Đại Cồ Việt: limestone peaks formed a natural wall and the Hoàng Long River a water route.
Updated 26 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingHexagram 35 Fire Over Earth (Jin) in the I Ching: the sun rising above the earth, a sign of advancing and being recognized.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesThe La Chi people live mainly in Ha Giang, speak a Ka Dai language, keep a separate altar for each man in the house, and hold folk games during Tet.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresĐại Việt sử ký toàn thư opens with the Hồng Bàng era: Kinh Dương Vương, named Lộc Tục, and the realm of Xích Quỷ. The Hán text set beside later histories.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › PsychologySuperstition survives because our learning machinery produces it: chance coincidences become rituals, and false beliefs may cost less than missed causes.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingExplore Hexagram 26 (Shan Tian Da Xu) in the I Ching: its symbolism, judgment, the meaning of inner accumulation, and practical applications in work and life.
Updated 21 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyThe six clashes of the twelve earthly branches, from Tý Ngọ to Tỵ Hợi, and how Tăng san bốc dịch reads clash as dispersal or as opening a storehouse.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiCelestial Executioner (Tian Zhan Sha) forms when a straight road, corridor or gap points at a house. See how to spot it and which remedies may deflect it.
Updated 27 Aug 2026Traditional systems
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Open data155 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.
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