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Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Dunhuang manuscripts from the 9th and 10th centuries cover day-selection, dream interpretation, physiognomy, and home feng shui.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
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 › 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 › 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 › Western › Philosophy of science The oldest personal chart is a Babylonian tablet from around the 5th century BCE. This study follows astrology from Mesopotamian omens to Greece and Persia.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
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 › 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 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 › Western › Playing-card reading Cartomancy uses an ordinary 52-card deck, rooted in European folk and Romani tradition, and largely predates Tarot's use for fortune-telling.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
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 › Eastern › I Ching Liu Yao reads the six lines of a hexagram with Stem-Branch, Five Elements, Six Relatives and Six Spirits, so it answers who, what, when and how much.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching What yin and yang mean, where the terms come from, and how Kinh Dịch, Bát Tự, Tử Vi and phong thủy use them, each by its own conventions.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The nine palaces are the nine cells of the Luo Shu, a 3x3 square whose every line totals 15, and the grid used by Huyền Không and Kỳ Môn.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Anxiety and ritual seeking track together in observational data, but experiments that induced lost control have not replicated.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
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 › Traditional performing arts Xoe Thai is the signature folk dance of the Thai people in Vietnam's Northwest, built on six ancient Xoe dances and inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching In Lục Hào, the Sibling line shares the palace element and stands for siblings, friends and rivals, aiding those people but harming wealth divination.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức 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.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Chu Hy's method for judging change in the Dịch học khải mông sets out which text to read when a hexagram has one to six moving lines.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief When something goes missing, many Vietnamese families pray to Ông Địa, the Earth God, promising an offering if it turns up. Search first, then try the ritual.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Self Line marks the querent, the Response Line marks the other party in Liu Yao. Their positions decide how the whole hexagram is assigned and read.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Physiognomy explained: its scientific basis, beginner books, and where to download physiognomy books legally, with a detailed and objective analysis.
Updated 6 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Folk traditional practices Drawing fortune sticks at the temple at the start of the year: offerings, ritual steps, cultural meaning, and notes for a respectful visit.
Updated 4 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › I Ching & Five Elements The I Ching is an ancient Chinese philosophical and divination system built on 64 hexagrams formed from the eight trigrams, or Bagua.
Updated 11 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Lục Nhâm is an ancient divination method in the Tam Thức group. Learn how Đại Lục Nhâm builds a chart: Thien Ban, Tứ Khóa, Tam Truyền, and Thiên Tướng.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Classical physiognomy reads moles by place and colour: hidden ones are mostly lucky, the navel means a noble son, the nape authority, mid-waist a bad sign.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Folk traditional practices Seven common palm-reading misconceptions, where Eastern and Western folk books contradict each other, and why science calls palm lines just skin folds.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Tướng quân tiễn, Diêm vương quan, Dạ đề quan: what Tam mệnh thông hội records, how Tử Vi books compute these hours by season, where books differ.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology How do Hoàng Thường and Hàm Chương's Tử Vi khảo luận, Vân Đằng Thái Thứ Lang's Tử Vi đẩu số tân biên and Nguyễn Phát Lộc's Tử Vi tổng hợp differ?
Updated 25 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Tam Thai and Bát Tọa are a pair of tap tinh governing rank and recognition. See how they are placed from Ta Phu and Hữu Bật by birth date.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Không vong in Bát Tự marks the two earthly branches missing from each ten-day can chi cycle. How to look it up, and where the old books disagree on it.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Cơ Nguyệt Đồng Lương in Vietnamese Tử Vi: its four stars, the verse tác lại nhân, and the occupations Tử Vi đẩu số tân biên lists for it.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiếu Dương is the second star of the Thái Tuế cycle, placed in the palace after Thái Tuế. Placement and meaning in four Vietnamese Tử Vi books.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Hỷ Thần in Tử Vi is the eighth star of the Lộc Tồn ring, counted forward or backward from Lộc Tồn. Placement table and meaning in Vietnamese Tử Vi books.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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 › 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 › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Vũ Khúc and Tham Lang share a palace only at Sửu and Mùi. What Vietnamese Tử Vi books record about late prosperity after thirty, and where they differ.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Tử Vi đẩu số tân biên and Trung Châu phái read the Cự Cơ Mão Dậu configuration differently: Mão or Dậu, which birth years fit, and what hostile stars bring.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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