Why does the Trung Phu hexagram mention pigs and fish?
The character "đồn" means piglet, and the character "ngư" means fish. Commentators understand the phrase "đồn ngư cát" in several different ways: some understand it as a simple offering, but with a true heart, heaven bears witness; some understand it as the creature hardest to move, and if even it can be moved, how much more so a person; some understand it as a symbol of subtle sensitivity to the weather. These interpretations do not exclude one another.
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.
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.
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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.
Phù Ức is a balancing principle in BaZi that uses supportive deities when the Day Master is weak and restraining deities when it is strong to achieve harmony.
Solar terms set Yang Dun or Yin Dun, and the fu tou day sets the yuan. This guide covers ju numbers, super spirit and qi continuation, Zhi Fu and Zhi Shi.
Saint Mother Liễu Hạnh, the only female saint among the Four Immortals, is tied to the three descents to earth and to the Three Realms Mother Goddess worship.
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An overview of Vietnamese traditional cuisine by region: Tet dishes, ancestral trays, festivals, vegetarian food and local specialties, with cultural context.
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.
Known as one of the divas of Vietnamese light music, closely associated with the songs of Trịnh Công Sơn, Dương Thụ, Trần Tiến, Phú Quang, Quốc Trung, Thanh Tùng.
The sixty hexagrams that take turns ruling the days under the Gua Qi method, in order from Inner Truth at the winter solstice, with their solar month, their rank (duke, sovereign, marquis, grand master, minister) and when each takes over counted from the solstice. The lookup table for the que-ngay-quai-khi-1900-2100 dataset.
Each point where Vietnamese calendrical, feng shui and divination sources disagree, with the reading taken here, the competing reading still in circulation, and what changes when you compare two sources. Every reference table has to pick one; most pick and say nothing.
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.
Every solar day from 1900 to 2100 with its ruling hexagram under the Gua Qi method (six days seven parts), the line ruling the day, the position in the sixty-hexagram cycle, the winter solstice anchor and the minutes elapsed since it, the solar term and the cardinal hexagram line for that term. Enough to recompute every row independently.