Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Day divination traces back to rishu day books excavated from Warring States, Qin and Han tombs, already systematized by the 3rd century BCE.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Enneagram Enneagram Type 6 arrows: integration toward Type 9 brings calm and relaxation, while stress pulls the Loyalist toward Type 3 traits like deceit.
Updated 7 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Enneagram Enneagram Type 9 moves toward Type 3 when healthy and toward Type 6 under stress. These arrows help Type 9 read its own state and grow.
Updated 28 Jun 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Enneagram Integration and disintegration arrows in the Enneagram explain why each personality type keeps moving and changing with psychological states.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection The twelve trực, from Kiến and Trừ to Khai and Bế, form a twelve-day cycle for judging each day, rooted in old calendars and the Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Tết Đoan Ngọ falls at noon on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, when folk belief says yang energy peaks. The bug-killing custom and ancestor worship.
Updated 15 Aug 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 › Traditional festivals Sitting tug of war at Trấn Vũ Temple and bamboo tug of war in Hữu Chấp village are harvest-praying rituals, both UNESCO-listed in 2015.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Heonik Kwon's ethnography shows how offerings to wandering souls in Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi help communities live with wartime memory.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Da Liu Ren builds the heaven plate from twelve Monthly Generals that shift with mid-qi, then places twelve Heavenly Generals from the Nobleman.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the deep symbolism and meaning of the Knight of Swords Tarot card, from its imagery and personality to the advice it offers when it appears.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days April 30, 1975 marks the moment liberation tanks crashed through the gates of Independence Palace, ending 30 years of war and 21 years of division.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the deep symbolism and meaning of The Chariot tarot card: upright and reversed meanings, hidden symbols, and practical applications in readings.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days National Resistance Day, December 19, 1946, marks President Ho Chi Minh's Call for National Resistance against French colonial invasion.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Tam Thức is Thái Ất, Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp and Lục Nhâm: three old divination arts for affairs of state, of action and of single matters, compared.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Hát xẩm is a northern Vietnamese folk singing craft dated to about the 14th century, sung at markets, village yards and on Hanoi trams.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days International Children's Day on June 1 began in 1949 to honor children killed by Nazi Germany in Lidice and Oradour, and Vietnam has marked it since 1950.
Updated 3 Aug 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
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Discover the deeper meaning of the 7 of Wands in Tarot: its symbolism, upright and reversed positions, and applications in love, career, and personal growth.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Bà Phi Yến's death anniversary falls on the 18th of the tenth lunar month at An Sơn Miếu, Côn Đảo. The legendary figure, the rites and the heritage debate.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Shang oracle bone divination (c. 13th to 11th century BCE) burned turtle shells and ox bones, read the cracks, then carved the question onto the bone.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Việt Bắc and Northeast Vietnam are two names with different scopes. This article analyses Then singing, market fairs, village life and local variations.
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 › Historical figures Held each year at Hoa Lư Ancient Capital, Ninh Bình, this festival honors King Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, founder of Đại Cồ Việt state.
Updated 8 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Lồng Tồng of the Tày, highland first-furrow festivals, and the Kinh tịch điền rite compared: who organizes each and how the core rite differs.
Updated 19 Sept 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 › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Tho people speak a Việt Mường language and live mainly in western Nghệ An and Thanh Hoá, with their own worship of spirits, ancestors and midwife deities.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Hùng Kings' Commemoration Day falls on the 10th day of the 3rd lunar month at Đền Hùng temple in Phú Thọ province, honoring the legendary Hùng Kings.
Updated 30 Jun 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 festivals Cổ Lễ Pagoda (Ong) Festival, Ninh Bình: 13th to 16th of the 9th lunar month, main day the 14th. In 2026 that is 22 to 25 October; in 2027, 12 to 15 October.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The Mường New Rice Festival in Hương Cần Commune, Phú Thọ falls on the 10th day of the 10th lunar month, when the Lang makes the offering at Khoang Đình.
Updated 27 Sept 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 The legend of Linh Sơn Thánh Mẫu centers on Lý Thị Thiên Hương, canonized under the Nguyen dynasty, and the festivals at Bà Đen Mountain.
Updated 25 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days Vietnam Doctors' Day (February 27) traces back to Ho Chi Minh's 1955 letter to a health cadres conference. Learn its origin, three teachings, and meaning.
Updated 9 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Enneagram Deep dive into Enneagram Type 6 (The Loyalist): core traits, core fear, strengths, weaknesses, and personal growth advice.
Updated 4 Jul 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Auspicious and inauspicious days classify a whole day by the twelve deities, while auspicious hours classify each two-hour block by that same set.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Lạng Sơn's Kỳ Cùng and Tả Phủ Temple Festivals run from the 22nd to the 27th of the first lunar month, when the Quan Lon Tuần Tranh palanquin returns.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The Si La people in Lai Châu celebrate Tet early, timing it to the harvest and peach blossoms, with black pig rituals and double chung cakes.
Updated 6 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The Second Black Star (Ju Men) in Xuan Kong Flying Stars governs illness, disputes and misfortune, yet can turn to wealth under favorable configurations.
Updated 22 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Chợ Củi Temple Festival in Nghi Xuân, Hà Tĩnh honours Saint Hoàng Mười and the Three Holy Mothers, and differs from Nghệ An's Ông Hoàng Mười Temple.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Ngô Quyền, the 938 Battle of Bạch Đằng, and the journey from Từ Lương Xâm to the new temple in Cổ Loa, showing the gratitude of later generations.
Updated 12 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures The tale of Mỵ Châu and Trọng Thủy as recorded in Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư and Việt Nam sử lược, with the comments of the old historians on it.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Which peoples in Vietnam keep their own New Year apart from Tết Nguyên Đán? The Mông, Hà Nhì, Khmer, Chăm and others, as reported in the press.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days Capital Liberation Day on 10 October 1954 saw Vietnamese forces take over Hanoi from French troops under the Geneva Accords.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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
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