Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm passed the Trang nguyen (first-place laureate) examination under the Mac dynasty in 1535. He was later granted the title Trình Tuyền hau, and then promoted to Trình Quốc cong. Combining the two appellations Trang nguyen and the title Trình Quốc cong, people of his time called him Trạng Trình.
Tam 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.
Thủy 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.
Explore the journey from the Cham goddess Po Inư Nagar to Thien Y A Na in Vietnamese belief, through the lens of the Po Nagar Tower festival in Nha Trang.
Kin 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.
Number 1 as the Sun and number 2 as the Moon is a convention of modern numerology, spread by Cheiro's 1926 book. We read his text and the test results.
Large meta-analyses find no link between moon phase and crime or birth counts. For sleep, the evidence remains contested and depends on light exposure.
The same parents' years match on one site and clash on another because each site compares a different part of can chi: heavenly stem, branch or nạp âm.
Liêm Trinh is the 'prisoner star' with a dual nature - upright or extreme. Explore its meaning, dignity, and interpretation across key palaces in a chart.
Lady Trieu, born Triệu Thị Trinh in 226, led the 248 uprising against Wu rule. Her temple on Gai Mountain, Thanh Hóa, keeps national heritage festivals.
Cung hoàng đạo in English is zodiac signs. This covers the 12 sign names in English, their pronunciation, sign versus constellation, and translation notes.
Hexagram Thủy Trạch Tiết (No. 60) in Kinh Dịch pairs Khảm above with Đoài below. Its Quái từ favors moderate restraint, since harsh restraint cannot last.
407 rows of offering procedures: each row is how one rite is performed in one region within one tradition, with timing, place of offering, officiant, offerings with catalogue codes, order of steps, things to avoid and practical notes, plus the addresses of the source pages or the titles of source books. Where sources disagree is recorded in the ghi_chu column.
155 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.