📍 Bái Đính Pagoda, Ninh Bình 📅 Day 6 of lunar month 1 🏛 Traditional festival 🕰 2027: no official dates yet; by custom it falls on 11 February 2027 Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Bái Đính Pagoda's mùng Sáu Tết opening features incense and lục cúng offerings, a palanquin procession to the ancient pagoda and spring festivities.
Updated 2 Nov 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
Dictionary › Tarot A spread is a predefined layout of Tarot cards in which each position carries its own meaning to help interpret a question.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Modern system
Dictionary › Face and palm reading Tam Đình is a face reading method splitting the face into three parts: head to hairline, hairline to nose tip, and nose tip to chin.
Updated 11 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The fire jumping ritual of the Red Dao people in Yên Bái is held during maturity or exorcism ceremonies, with dancing on embers and prayers for peace.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Đại Bái village in Bắc Ninh is the cradle of bronze casting in Northern Vietnam, with about 1000 years of history and refined engraving art.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Keo Hành Thiện Pagoda Festival in Ninh Bình falls in mid-Ninth lunar month, honoring Zen Master Dương Không Lộ with boat racing and folk games.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Đinh Mùi 2027 in Bát Tự: the year pillar starts at Start of Spring on 4 Feb 2027, Ten Gods of the stem Đinh for ten Day Masters, and Mùi's branch relations.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Bronze casting for worship in Lộng Thượng, Y Yen and Đại Bái: how three villages keep a centuries-old craft alive against industrial pressure.
Updated 27 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Dinh Cậu Phú Quốc Festival falls on the 15th and 16th of the 10th lunar month, with Nghinh Cậu, Yết Cậu and Chinh Te rituals honouring Chúa Ngọc Nương Nương.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Bai Choi of Central Vietnam is a Tet game mixing folk singing with card draws, with about 30 cards and witty ho thai calls, inscribed by UNESCO in 2017.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Chèo is the folk musical theatre of the Red River Delta, played on a mat in the communal house yard, with old plays such as Quan Âm Thị Kính.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Heavenly Stem Ding is Yin Fire: a small flame, gentle light and spreading warmth. In the I Ching it points to quiet maturity and nourishment.
Updated 17 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Dinh mountain sits in the Xun trigram, Wood element, Yin nature, between 157. 5 and 172. 5 degrees on the feng shui compass.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Hoàn giáp is when the birth stem-branch year returns after 60 years. Born Đinh Mùi 1967: 60 by reckoned age in 2026, hoàn giáp and 60 by Western age in 2027.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Trà Đông bronze casting village in Thanh Hóa, over 1,000 years old, keeps hereditary secrets of clay mold making and alloy blending.
Updated 23 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Palmistry Palmistry's journey from ancient India, China, Egypt and Greece to Victorian systematization by Cheiro, plus the core principles of palm reading.
Updated 12 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Ancient leaf books of the May people, a Chut subgroup, held incantations and ritual texts, and the artisans who can read them have nearly vanished.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Tam đình splits the face into three parts: thượng đình from hairline to brows, trung đình from brows to nose tip, hạ đình from nose tip to chin.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Hue culture blends Nguyen dynasty court ritual with folk belief, Mother Goddess worship, and festivals like the Am Hon ceremony and Huệ Nam Temple festival.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Traditional Hue weddings prize ritual over material gifts across six ceremonies, and though simplified today, they keep their solemn spiritual meaning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Traditional performing arts Water puppetry is a folk stage art of Vietnam's wet-rice civilisation, performed on water with a hidden chamber and pavilion.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Tuồng, or hát bội, is Vietnam's classical theatre, known for coded face-painting and for the plays of Đào Tấn in Bình Định, its heartland.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram Hỏa Phong Đỉnh, No. 50 in the I Ching, is the three-legged ritual cauldron that cooks the new after the old is discarded.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Flying stars for Đinh Mùi 2027: Ngũ Hoàng in the North, Tam Sát in the West, Thái Tuế at Mùi in the Southwest, as read in Trạch vận tân án.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › The twelve zodiac animals Folk tips for naming a 2027 Đinh Mùi child: choosing Nho radicals, five elements, and can chi to suit the Mùi zodiac, plus what to avoid.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui In 968 Đinh Bộ Lĩnh made Hoa Lư the capital of Đại Cồ Việt: limestone peaks formed a natural wall and the Hoàng Long River a water route.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Where the custom of a Lunar New Year opening day comes from, and what people weigh up when picking a date and preparing offerings.
Updated 17 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam Having a child in 2027 Đinh Mùi, nạp âm Thiên Hà Thủy: read parent compatibility by can chi, nạp âm, tam hợp and lục hợp, with notes on the method's limits.
Updated 17 Oct 2026
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
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Red River Delta culture centres on village life, communal houses, pagodas, village gates and worship. A close look at Đường Lâm, Phù Lưu and Phúc Xá.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Đông Sơn bronze drums: their dating, casting techniques, star motifs, Lac birds and frog figures, and what these reveal about ancient Vietnamese beliefs.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The Huong Pagoda Festival is Northern Vietnam's largest Buddhist festival, tied to the legend of Quan Âm Thị Kính at Hương Tích Cave.
Updated 24 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức In Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp, Tam Kỳ are Ất, Bính, Đinh, while Lục Nghi are Mậu, Kỷ, Canh, Tân, Nhâm, Quý. Each of the six Giáp hides under one Lục Nghi stem.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology By folk belief, in 2027 (Đinh Mùi) Pig, Cat and Goat meet their last Tam Tai year; Goat is in Thái Tuế, Ox clashes, Dog punishes, Rat harms. Schools differ.
Updated 17 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Grand Memorial for Buddha Emperor Trần Nhân Tông's Parinirvana is held at Cung Trúc Lâm, Yên Tử and Ngọa Vân Pagoda each year.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Yên Tử Festival honours Emperor-Buddha Trần Nhân Tông, founder of the Trúc Lâm Zen sect, with its rituals and spiritual meaning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship The Buddha altar usually sits higher than the ancestor altar, but the exact layout depends on each home's space and regional or family tradition.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Why Buddha's Birthday falls on the 8th or the 15th of the fourth lunar month, and how the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha holds Vesak Week each year.
Updated 13 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Autumn Keo Pagoda Festival in Hưng Yên honors Zen Master Dương Không Lộ with palanquin processions, the frog dance and boat racing.
Updated 25 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
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