Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThang Long Tu Tran is four temples guarding the old capital: Bach Ma in the east, Voi Phuc in the west, Kim Lien in the south, Quan Thanh in the north.
Updated 22 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Dictionary › OtherPhù 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.
Updated 21 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe Rain Praying Festival in Hung Yen honours the Four Dharma Goddesses with palanquin processions and the Danh Trang game, a wet-rice farming ritual.
Updated 2 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe Four Dharma Deities at Dau Pagoda in Bac Ninh blend Indian Buddhism with ancient Vietnamese nature worship of Cloud, Rain, Thunder and Lightning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesThe Phu La people include the Phu La Lao, Phu La Den and Phu La Han groups, living in Ha Giang, Lao Cai, Yen Bai and Lai Chau.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyTử Vi Chân Cơ is the core-principle reading of Tử Vi, not a separate school. It differs from Bát Tự and Kinh Dịch in input data and basic units of judgment.
Updated 9 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismLuy Lâu is seen as one of the earliest places Buddhism reached Giao Châu, linked with chùa Dâu, the Tứ Pháp cult and Mâu Tử's Lý hoặc luận.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Dictionary › Vietnamese folk beliefsTu Bat Tu is the collective name for four immortal saints in Vietnamese folk belief: Tan Vien Son Thanh, Saint Giong, Chu Dong Tu, and Holy Mother Lieu Hanh.
Updated 11 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboosWhat age-borrowing means before building a house in Vietnam, how the stand-in is chosen, the five customary steps, and why the symbolic sale is ritual only.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Dictionary › Bát Tự (Four Pillars)BaZi, or Four Pillars, is a traditional destiny analysis system built on the birth year, month, day, and hour, each with a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyClassical Tử Vi uses 12 palaces and 14 main stars to read destiny, while modern Tử Vi is a folk term for everyday chart lookup.
Updated 4 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of scienceScientific historiography treats Tu Vi, Bat Tu and Thai At as calculation techniques built on the can chi calendar and ancient astronomy.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Dictionary › Tử Vi (Zi Wei Dou Shu)Tử Vi Đẩu Số is a traditional Vietnamese-Chinese astrological system that casts a twelve-palace chart from birth date and time.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam ThứcLuc Nham is an ancient divination method in the Tam Thuc group. Learn how Dai Luc Nham builds a chart: Thien Ban, Tu Khoa, Tam Truyen, and Thien Tuong.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path are the foundation of Buddhism, analyzed through Pali scriptures, philosophy, and levels of practice.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyTử Vi Đẩu Số has many branches, including Tam Hợp, Tứ Hóa, Trung Châu and Tân Biên. Each reads one chart differently through star sets and Tứ Hóa placement.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefTừ Đạo Hạnh, Nguyễn Minh Không and Dương Không Lộ in Lĩnh Nam chích quái are tales of wonder about three monks of the Lý era, told as tales.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyTuần Không and Triệt Không are two void stars that block between two palaces, placed by the tuần Giáp and the year's heavenly stem.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesA guide to the Thang 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 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiA guide to the Ten Gods (Thập Thần) in Bát Tự astrology, what each of the ten deity stars represents and how they relate to personality and career.
Updated 15 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyTử vi trọn đời casts one chart from the birth hour to read a whole life through mệnh, thân, the twelve palaces and vận hạn. It is a conventional reading.
Updated 9 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiBát Tự reads family members through palace position and the Ten Gods, then reconciles the two layers by the chart's favorable elements.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiBát Tự quang minh is not a separate cách cục but a state of clear qi with a strong Hỉ Dụng thần. This piece shows how to spot it and use it in fate reading.
Updated 4 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk divinationCan Kinh Dịch, Tarot, or Tử Vi truly find you a partner? This analysis weighs their origins, reading methods, and experimental evidence so you can decide.
Updated 7 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figuresNgo Quyen, the 938 Battle of Bach Dang, and the journey from Tu Luong Xam to the new temple in Co Loa, showing the gratitude of later generations.
Updated 12 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismImpermanence, suffering and non-self are the three marks of the teaching: body, mind and world all change, are unsatisfactory and have no fixed self.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyTuế Phá is a minor star in the Thái Tuế circle, governing opposition and ruin. This analyses its meaning, combinations, and reading when it enters a period.
Updated 3 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyTang Môn in Tử Vi belongs to the Thái Tuế ring, governing sorrow, loss, and mourning. Its placement, meaning when holding Mệnh.
Updated 3 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › TarotTarot began as a 15th-century Italian noble card game, only becoming an occult divination tool some 300 years later in France and England.
Updated 17 Jul 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyRead love and marriage on a Tử Vi chart starting from the Phu Thê palace, then Quan Lộc, Thiên Di, Phúc Đức and Tài Bạch, with the love stars read in context.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyIs 40 too late to look for love? Tử Vi reads the Phu Thê palace and Cô Quả stars, psychology looks at marriage age. No single age is absolutely too late.
Updated 7 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyKình Dương, one of the Six Killing Stars in Tử Vi Đẩu Số, is a Fire element star of impulsiveness and danger that also brings willpower.
Updated 25 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiBa Tu chart structures come from the month command and stem revelation. This analysis covers the main structures and where interpretation schools differ.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiThe Four Green Star (Wen Chang) in Xuan Kong Flying Stars governs intelligence and learning. Its meanings, influence by palace, remedies and feng shui uses.
Updated 26 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyQuan Phù, a star in the Thái Tuế circle, links to gossip, lawsuits, and officialdom. This analysis covers its position, meaning.
Updated 6 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Yen Tu Festival honours Emperor-Buddha Tran Nhan Tong, founder of the Truc Lam Zen sect, with its rituals and spiritual meaning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyĐại Hao in Tử Vi is not merely a malefic star. This analysis explains its dissipating nature, how it acts by palace, and when it forms a good configuration.
Updated 1 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of scienceGreek and Indian astrology reached Tang China through Buddhism, yet Tu Vi Dau So and Bat Tu run on the can chi calendar and ngu hanh, not Western star logic.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiTam Long traces a dragon vein from its distant source peak through to tong son, thieu to son and phu mau son to where it settles.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiWater and Water Methods in the Five Essentials of Landform Feng Shui: what water means and how practitioners read forms with the dragon vein.
Updated 24 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiBa Tu reads marriage through the spouse star and the spouse palace at the day branch, plus how that branch combines or clashes with major and annual luck.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyA career reading on a Tử Vi chart centres on the Mệnh, Tài Bạch and Quan Lộc triangle, the Phu Thê palace opposite, plus Thiên Di and Phúc Đức.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Open dataEach 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.
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