Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Trùng Cửu Festival on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month features chrysanthemums, the custom of climbing high, and longevity wishes.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Thăng Long Tứ Tran is four temples guarding the old capital: Bạch Mã in the east, Voi Phục in the west, Kim Liên in the south, Quán Thánh in the north.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Trúc Lâm Yên Tử school founded by Trần Nhân Tông: its three patriarchs and the idea of cư trần lạc đạo, living in the world yet glad in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Vietnamese Buddhism over nearly twenty centuries: the Luy Lâu centre, fusion with local beliefs, the Lý and Trần flourishing.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Hoàn Kiếm Lake is not one of Thăng Long's four guardian temples, yet the returned sword legend sits at the old capital's spiritual center.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Huyền Trân Princess Temple in Hue honors the Tran dynasty princess who expanded Vietnam's southern frontier. Its festival falls in the first lunar month.
Updated 13 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Trần Hưng Đạo, the general who led Đại Việt against the Mongols three times, became Đức Thánh Trần, a worshipped saint honoured at temples such as Kiếp Bạc.
Updated 22 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Cư trần lạc đạo phú by Trần Nhân Tông: ten sections in Nôm and a closing verse in Hán, on living in the world while delighting in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Discover the meaning, rituals, and sacred moments of the Seal Opening Ceremony at Tran Temple in Nam Định, a beautiful cultural tradition of early spring.
Updated 5 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Trấn yểm in Vietnamese folklore through the Cao Biền story: legends of suppressing royal graves, burial charms, and the perspective of historical research.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures The Côn Sơn - Kiếp Bạc Festival honors Trần Hưng Đạo and Nguyễn Trãi, two figures tied to this land, at a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site.
Updated 25 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites A guide to the Thăng Long Tu Tran spring pilgrimage: the order of the four temples, what to pray at each, and mistakes first-timers often make.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Grand Memorial for Buddha Emperor Trần Nhân Tông's Parinirvana is held at Cung Trúc Lâm, Yên Tử and Ngọa Vân Pagoda each year.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Bạch Mã Temple in Hanoi guards the East of Thăng Long's Four Guardian Temples and worships Long Đỗ, the city's tutelary god.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Thiệu Ung (Shao Yong, 1011 to 1077) and Hoàng Cực Kinh Thế: the image-and-number learning of the Song and the cycle of nguyên, hội, vận, thế.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Hue royal court Nha Nhac is the ceremonial music of the Nguyen dynasty, tied to the Nam Giao sacrifice and court rituals.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Han Yijing studies by Meng Xi, Jiao Yanshou and Jing Fang used image-number; how does this differ from Wang Bi's meaning-principle reading.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Đinh Bộ Lĩnh put down the twelve warlords, reunified the country and founded Đại Cồ Việt in 968, after more than twenty years of division.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Buddhism Buddhist meditation covers both meditative concentration and the Zen school, arriving in Vietnam from the early Common Era and thriving under the Lý and Trần.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Đại 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 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Đồng Bằng Temple Festival runs from the 20th to 26th of the eighth lunar month in Hưng Yên, honoring King Father Bát Hải Động Đình.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Tuồng, or hát bội, is Vietnam's classical theatre, known for coded face-painting and for the plays of Đào Tấn in Bình Định, its heartland.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Huyền Quang (Lý Đạo Tái), third patriarch of the Trúc Lâm Zen school after Trần Nhân Tông and Pháp Loa, is profiled via his life, deeds and surviving poetry.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Vietnam › Buddhism The five houses of Chinese Chan are Guiyang, Linji, Caodong, Yunmen and Fayan. They differ in how they guided students and where they spread.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Bạch Hổ, one of the six lục thú of Lục Hào: how it is placed by the day stem and what Tăng san bốc dịch says about reading it.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites What is distinctive about funerals in Huế: the âm công bearers and their dress, the order of rites, and the city rule on how long a wake may last.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Lê Lợi led the Lam Sơn uprising from 1418 to 1427, expelling the Ming and founding the Later Le dynasty, honoured still at the Lam Kinh Festival.
Updated 24 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The three Chan lineages of the Lý era: Tì Ni Đa Lưu Chi, Vô Ngôn Thông and Thảo Đường. Their origins, transmission and how scholars read them.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Chu Văn An (1292-1370), the most exemplary teacher in Vietnamese history, and the temple on Phoenix Mountain in Hải Dương that honours him.
Updated 31 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Xinxin Ming and Zhengdao Ge are both foundational Chan verses, but they differ in author, date, wording and how they present the path.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Thành Hoàng is the guardian deity believed to protect each Vietnamese village, worshipped at the communal đình. Its origins, deity types and royal decrees.
Updated 3 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional dress Explore the origins, four-panel construction, variations, and cultural significance of Ao Tu Than, the iconic traditional dress of Northern Vietnamese women.
Updated 13 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra are the two core Prajñāpāramitā texts of Chan: what they say, where they come from and why Chan prizes them.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Astrology is not science in the modern empirical sense, yet calling it pure superstition ignores its roots in Yin-Yang, the Five Elements and the I Ching.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Bronze casting for worship in Lộng Thượng, Y Yen and Đại Bái: how three villages keep a centuries-old craft alive against industrial pressure.
Updated 27 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures How old histories record the eighteen Hùng kings and the state of Văn Lang, and which parts are legend: the sources, the fifteen bộ and the Hùng cult.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Historical figures Nguyễn Trãi, world cultural celebrity, was the soul of the resistance against the Ming and spent years at Côn Sơn writing and reflecting on benevolent rule.
Updated 13 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures The Nguyễn Trung Trực Memorial Festival in Kiên Giang runs each year from the 26th to 28th of the 8th lunar month, honoring the hero who died in 1868.
Updated 1 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Emperor Quang Trung (Nguyễn Huệ) led the Tây Sơn movement and crushed 290,000 Qing troops at Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa in 1789.
Updated 14 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
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