Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching A Kinh Dịch hexagram stacks several layers of text: name, hexagram text, six line texts, then the Thoán, Great Image, Small Image, and Văn Ngôn.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Ten Wings (Thập Dực) are ten commentaries on the I Ching: Thoán, Tượng, Hệ Từ, Văn Ngôn, Tự Quái, Thuyết Quái, Tạp Quái.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Discover the Văn Khúc star in Zi Wei Dou Shu: its meaning, characteristics, position in palaces, and influence on wisdom, education, and literary talent.
Updated 26 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Văn Xương in Zi Wei Dou Shu: its origin, nature, favorable and unfavorable positions, and meaning for intelligence, exams and career.
Updated 27 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Three early 20th century recorders found fortune telling, day selection and mediumship widespread in northern Vietnam, each seeing them differently.
Updated 28 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Quan họ, ca trù, chèo, xẩm, hát văn, đờn ca tài tử and nhã nhạc, together with regional folk songs, form the mosaic of Vietnamese folk music.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Saint Giong, or Phù Đổng Thiên Vương, is one of the Four Immortals in Vietnamese folk belief, and the Giong Festival was recognized by UNESCO in 2010.
Updated 14 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Tay are Vietnam's largest ethnic minority. They live in northeastern valleys, speak a Tay-Thai language, worship ancestors, and hold long tong festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Lự people speak a Tày-Thái language and live mainly in Lai Châu, with worship customs and festivals tied to their own calendar.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Mnong speak a Mon-Khmer language and live mainly in Đắk Lắk and Lâm Đồng, with matrilineal culture and buffalo sacrifice at the new rice festival.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority belief UNESCO recognized the Gong Culture Space of the Central Highlands in 2005. Gongs shape the spiritual life of the Ê Đê, Ba Na and Gia Rai.
Updated 27 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The La Ha people live in Yên Bái and Sơn La, with a 2019 population of 10,157. Their housing, marriage and worship customs are covered here.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Muong ethnic group speaks a Viet-Muong language and lives mainly in Hòa Bình, Thanh Hóa and Phú Thọ, with mo epics, festivals and worship customs.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The Rong house is the cultural and spiritual heart of Central Highlands villages, hosting rituals, dispute resolution, and production planning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Tà Ôi live in western Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế, speak a Mon-Khmer language, and worship spirits with festivals tied to the swidden farming cycle.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Explore the custom of black teeth staining, once a beauty standard of the Lu people in Lai Châu, along with other unique cultural values being preserved.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Fu Xi, King Wen, the Duke of Zhou and Confucius are all credited with the I Ching, but excavated manuscripts point to a late Western Zhou compilation.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Tây Nguyên culture centres on the gong space, the rông house and the matrilineal system. The article analyses their origins and how they are changing today.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Vietnam's Decree 39/2024/NĐ-CP sets seven types of intangible cultural heritage for inventory, with traditional crafts fifth and folk knowledge seventh.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Giai mong truyen is a Vietnamese story type built on a dream and its reading. This covers its origins, mechanisms, dream categories and how dreams were read.
Updated 9 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Yin yang, the Five Elements, the I Ching, Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism: their origins, differences and how these systems blended into Vietnamese culture.
Updated 22 Oct 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities Vietnam recognises 54 ethnic groups under the 1979 official list, with the Kinh majority and 53 minority groups spread across all regions.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship What does a giỗ require? Offerings, the offering tray, the prayer text and the order of the day, drawn from Vietnamese historical sources.
Updated 11 Oct 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 › Eastern › I Ching 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.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Bru - Vân Kiều people number 94,598 and live along the Trường Sơn range in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, and Thừa Thiên Huế.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk traditional practices Kieu fortune telling at Tet uses verses from Nguyễn Du's Tale of Kieu to predict outcomes. A randomly opened verse is read as an omen for the year.
Updated 10 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Vạn Hạnh was a monk of the Lý era, linked to the story of Lý Công Uẩn. His verse Thị đệ tử speaks of impermanence, life and death, rise and decline.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Vân Hớn in the Nine Luminaries: traits, its inauspicious meaning for men and women, and the 29th day ritual facing East.
Updated 19 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Buddhism Sun Moon Lamp Light Buddha is the last of twenty thousand Buddhas sharing one title in the Lotus Sutra's opening chapter.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Trạng Trình Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm was a 16th century cultural celebrity. His temple in Vĩnh Bảo, Hải Phòng, is a special national relic.
Updated 4 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The New Rice Festival of the Cao Lan people in Tuyên Quang gives thanks to ancestors and nature after the harvest, with a neu tree and new rice.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The grain bin binding ritual of the Nung people in Bắc Kạn is a longevity celebration within the Ky Yen ceremony, wishing elders long life.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food Banh Chung and Banh Tet trace back to the Lang Liêu legend of the Hung King era, symbolizing heaven, earth and prosperity.
Updated 25 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food Ruou can in the festival life of the E De and other Central Highlands groups: an offering to deities and a bond of community solidarity.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Cồng has a central boss, chiêng does not; both are brass gongs forming the Tây Nguyên cồng chiêng cultural space UNESCO inscribed in 2005.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Tuế 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 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Chicken feet divination at Tet and the new rice ceremony of ethnic minorities aims to predict fate and crops for the new year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Vietnamese star worship and misfortune resolution (dâng sao giải hạn) at lunar new year: its Taoist origins, cultural meaning, and a Buddhist view.
Updated 22 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Wild sunflowers bloom on Chư Đang Ya volcano in Gia Lai from mid-October to November, tied to a festival week and the culture of the local Jrai people.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Counts in Thái Ất: the host count and guest count, long and short counts, and what Thái Ất kim kính thức kinh calls harmonious and not.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Tử Vi (Zi Wei Dou Shu) Tứ Hóa are the four stars Hóa Lộc, Hóa Quyền, Hóa Khoa and Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi astrology, standing for prosperity, power, reputation and adversity.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Mệnh vô chính diệu means the Mệnh palace holds no major star. Readers borrow stars from Thiên Di, though only 70 to 80 percent carries over.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Open data Festivals, rites and worship customs of the 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam, one row per festival, with each group's home region and language family. Extracted from 54 Nhật Nguyệt articles; every row cites the article it came from.
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