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Start Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Trùng tang, the hour of coffining and avoided burial days are folk beliefs from Bắc Kỳ; anthropology reads them as easing unease when someone dies.
Updated 28 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The grave-opening ceremony about three days after burial in southern Vietnam: the offerings, the folk meaning of chick, ladder and sugarcane, a Buddhist view.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship The custom of offering a day early is called lễ tiên thường, with the main chính kỵ the next day. Its origin, distinctions and meaning.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Wang Chong of the Eastern Han refuted day taboos, Tai Sui avoidance and fear of spirit harm in the Lunheng chapters Jiri, Biansui and Nansui, with quotes.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Wear dark, modest clothing, avoid bright colors, make offerings of money, incense, or wreaths by closeness, and keep condolences short and sincere.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship Tảo mộ, chạp mả cuối năm là tục sửa sang phần mộ tổ tiên trước Tết. Bài nêu ngày làm, lễ vật, tục chạp mả ở Huế, xứ Quảng và ý nghĩa thờ cúng tổ tiên.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos Vietnamese taboo names of ancestors: why giỗ prayers whisper the dead's name, whether children could share a grandparent's name, and where the custom endures.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Southern Vietnamese funerals in press accounts: nhập quan, phát tang, cúng vong, ritual music, động quan and hạ huyệt, and where sources cover one locality.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites What to do when a family member dies: the order of a traditional Vietnamese funeral, from shrouding and mourning dress to burial and the later rites.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The Táng thư defines force as a thousand feet and form as a hundred: where the mountain's force arrives and the form stops, qi is said to gather.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites In Việt Nam phong tục, tế ngu counts from burial: sơ ngu on the burial day, tam ngu on the third. The 49th, 100th day and first anniversary count from death.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The Táng thư names five kinds of mountain unfit for burial: đồng, đoạn, thạch, quá, độc. What the main text says and what its commentary adds.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Chôl Chnăm Thmây is the Khmer New Year, held in mid-April over three days with rituals like the Maha Sangkran procession and bathing the Buddha.
Updated 5 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Lunar memorial days for Shakyamuni Buddha, Guanyin, Ksitigarbha, Manjushri, Samantabhadra and other Bodhisattvas, with origins and practice notes.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Explore the deep cultural significance of traditional Vietnamese funerals, common burial forms, and trends of change in modern society.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Friday the 13th stock studies give conflicting results, and any effect is tiny. Vietnamese lunar bad days have not been studied the same way.
Updated 28 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Tết in northern Vietnam: the feast tray, Nhật Tân peach blossom, the Hàng Lược flower market and three days of family reunion, with origins and meaning.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Tet 2027, the Lunar New Year of the Goat, starts Saturday, February 6, 2027. Public employees may get 7 days off, February 4 to 10.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos Explore traditional Vietnamese Tet taboos: avoiding sweeping, giving fire, breaking things... and the spiritual meanings behind these customs.
Updated 19 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboos Vietnamese folk taboos for opening a business include choosing auspicious dates, avoiding the ghost month and holding opening rituals.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Dutch research links weddings on special dates to an 18 to 36 percent higher divorce risk, mostly from couples' traits, not the date.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Nhị thập bát tú trực nhật pairs the 28 mansions with days across seven Giáp Tý cycles of 420 days. Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư records it and criticises it.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Cúng cơm ba ngày Tết covers the first, second and third day rites: Nguyên đán, Chiêu điện, Tịch điện and the Tạ ceremony, with regional differences.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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 › I Ching Quái khí maps the 60 hexagrams onto 365 days by the method of Mạnh Hỷ and Kinh Phòng, each ruling six days and seven parts.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selection Xem ngày tốt xấu hôm nay theo lịch âm dựa trên can chi, trực, sao và giờ hoàng đạo. Bài giải thích nguyên lý, cách tra và giới hạn của việc chọn ngày.
Updated 2 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship The Thánh sư altar honours a craft's patron. Learn the three names, altar placement, ritual objects, and offering days per custom books.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Folk traditional practices How to choose auspicious dates and times for weddings and groundbreaking in Vietnamese folk belief, with lunar calendar tips and simple rituals.
Updated 8 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar How a lunar leap month is determined, why leap years exist, and why one lunar day in a leap year corresponds to two solar days.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Ba Tu major cycles are set by gender and the yin yang of the year stem, with starting age counted from days to the nearest solar term at three days per year.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
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 Nghinh Ông Lại Sơn Festival falls on the 15th and 16th days of the 10th lunar month at Lăng Ông Nam Hải, Hòn Sơn Island, Kiên Hải, An Giang.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The 19th of the 2nd, 6th and 9th lunar months mark the three Quán Thế Âm festival days, symbolic Mahayana commemorations.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites When to burn the mourning scarf in Vietnamese custom: the 49-day, 100-day and death anniversaries, plus the rites of removing mourning.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Funeral customs across Northern, Central and Southern Vietnam differ in coffin size, burial timing and reburial, with Hue royal culture shaping Central rites.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Trấn yểm in Vietnamese folklore through the Cao Biền story: legends of suppressing royal graves, burial charms, and the perspective of historical research.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship A detailed guide to arranging the family altar by feng shui and custom, covering placement, offerings, and steps for Tet and regular days.
Updated 23 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Explore the main rites of a traditional Vietnamese funeral, from encoffining and mourning attire to burial and the 49-day rites, and their cultural meaning.
Updated 4 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Funeral rites in northern Vietnam, from shrouding and encoffining to thành phục, the burial and the ngu rites that follow, as old ritual books record.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the symbolism and in-depth meaning of the Five of Swords Tarot card: conflict, defeat, hollow victory, and the path to healing.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites A practical guide to choosing and arranging the five-fruit tray for Tet in the North, Central and South, with meanings and step-by-step instructions.
Updated 6 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food Southern bánh tét is a signature Tet offering that symbolizes prosperity and family reunion. See its origins, meaning and traditional wrapping methods.
Updated 23 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship A clan genealogy lists taboo and courtesy names, birth and death dates, burial sites and children; it was kept in an altar cabinet or box at the clan hall.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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