Culture and belief Vietnamese festival calendar Holidays and festivals all year, where they happen, with maps.
Start 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 › Historical figures The 40 AD uprising of Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị, its causes and significance, plus Hát Môn Temple in Hanoi, the sacred site tied to their final days.
Updated 9 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Festival customs Tết Trùng Thập, mùng 10 tháng Mười âm lịch, is the holiday of physicians and spirit mediums and the new rice festival. Its origin, where it survives.
Updated 2 Nov 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 › Traditional festivals Origins, rituals and cultural values of the Hung Kings Temple Festival in Phú Thọ, held on the 10th day of the third lunar month to honor the Hung Kings.
Updated 23 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Vietnam's Mid-Autumn Festival, the 8th lunar month full moon, is Children's Festival with ancestor offerings, moon-viewing trays and paper toys.
Updated 3 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Explore the meaning of Trung Phủ (cheekbones) in physiognomy: position, good and bad features, and its connection to power and personality.
Updated 24 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
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
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Explore the position and meaning of Trung Nhạc (nose bridge) in the Five Peaks theory of Eastern physiognomy, its connection to personality and destiny.
Updated 2 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Per Lục Nhâm đại toàn: Nguyên Thủ has one khóa with upper overcoming lower, Trùng Thẩm one with lower overcoming upper; Tri Nhất and Thiệp Hại have several.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Tang and Song records on Lý Hư Trung and Từ Tử Bình show Tử Bình has layered origins, with source texts like Lý Hư Trung mệnh thư altered over time.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Tep Temple festival for Trung Túc Vương Lê Lai in Kiên Thọ commune, Thanh Hóa falls on the 21st of the 8th lunar month and the 8th of the 1st lunar month.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Explore the meaning of Tuyền Trung Thủy (Giáp Thân, Ất Dậu) in the Sexagenary Cycle: Five Elements characteristics, interactions, and practical applications.
Updated 21 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Hải Trung Kim is the Na Yin for Giáp Tý and Ất Sửu, a hidden metal in the Five Elements. Its calm nature and traits are explained here.
Updated 8 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Sa Trung Kim is the Na Yin for Giáp Ngọ and Ất Mùi years, a Metal element sign. It covers Five Elements meaning and personality traits.
Updated 21 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Explore the Lư Trung Hỏa (Fire in the Furnace) na am for Bính Dần and Đinh Mão years: Five Elements characteristics, feng shui meanings, colors, and guidance.
Updated 2 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Sa Trung Thổ is the nayin for Bính Thìn and Đinh Tỵ years, tied to Earth yet carrying golden sand. It covers origin and feng shui colors.
Updated 2 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Mid-Autumn Festival customs differ across Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam, from northern rituals to lively Central festivals and Southern gift-giving.
Updated 29 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Human Design The nine Human Design centers are defined (colored) or undefined (white). Here is how to read them, plus the limits of this pseudoscientific system.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals How children celebrate Mid-Autumn in northern, central and southern Vietnam: lantern parades, lion dances and the moon-viewing feast.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Trùng tang, the hour of coffining and avoided burial days are folk beliefs from Bắc Kỳ; anthropology reads them as easing unease when someone dies.
Updated 28 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites A detailed step-by-step guide on preparing offerings and arranging the Mid-Autumn Festival tray according to Vietnamese traditions.
Updated 26 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức A Lục Nhâm course type names a chart by the overcoming relations among its four courses. The four base types are Nguyên Thủ, Trùng Thẩm, Tri Nhất, Thiệp Hại.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology How the Phi Tinh school reads Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi: Kỵ nhập, Kỵ xung, Lộc and Kỵ in one palace, and stacked Kỵ, following Từ Tăng Sinh's book.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 61 Phong Trạch Trung Phu concerns inner sincerity. It covers the Judgment, Image, six line texts, the Sequence, and practical lessons.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Cầu Ngư festival honors the Whale God in central Vietnam, with fishermen praying for safe seas and good catches through rituals that bind the community.
Updated 10 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The 100-day memorial does not require an upturned rice bowl and egg: Phan Kế Bính lists them for giỗ feasts, not for the tốt khốc rite.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Northern and Central Vietnam stress ancestral offerings and the pest-killing ritual on Đoan Ngọ, while the South keeps things simpler.
Updated 10 Aug 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 › Eastern › Feng shui The Táng Thư says qi scatters in wind and stops at water, hence phong thủy; water comes first, storing wind second. Read against the Chinese text.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Discover the distinctive features of Huong Pagoda Festival: the pilgrimage journey through Yen Stream, the cave pagoda complex and offering rituals.
Updated 28 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food Vietnamese mooncakes come as baked bánh nướng and soft bánh dẻo. Where they are said to come from, and what the traditional fillings are.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days Vietnamese War Invalids and Martyrs Day on July 27 began in 1947 in Thái Nguyên as National War Invalids Day and was renamed in 1955.
Updated 15 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Whale worship and the Cầu Ngư festival form the spiritual core of South Central Coast fishing villages, tied to the sea and fishermen's beliefs.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days Learn about the origin of International Labor Day on May 1 from the 1886 Chicago workers' movement and its significance in Vietnam through the periods.
Updated 25 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Everyday meals in Vietnam's North, Central and South reflect climate and culture: mild and balanced in the North, bold and salty in the Central.
Updated 8 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Hầu đồng is the spirit mediumship ritual at the heart of Đạo Mẫu, believed to channel the Tứ Phủ deities through a medium.
Updated 20 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Tet feast trays in Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam differ in ingredients and meaning, from banh chung in the North to banh tet in the South.
Updated 28 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Kate Festival is the Cham Brahmin New Year in Ninh Thuận, held in the 7th Cham month to honor deities, kings and ancestors.
Updated 17 Jun 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
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Open data The actual solar date of each festival across five years, with the weekday. Lunar festivals land on a different solar date every year, and this table works that out in advance.
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Open data Vietnamese folk festivals, seasonal feasts and public holidays, each with its fixed lunar or solar date.
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Open data 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.
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