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Start Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship What replacing an incense bowl involves, when it should be renewed, who in the family may do it, and why the customs vary across regions and households.
Updated 21 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship Year-end altar cleaning in Vietnam is usually done after the Kitchen Gods rite and before New Year's Eve, by the householder, in three steps.
Updated 13 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 › Ancestor worship The number of altars and incense bowls in a home is not fixed. This analysis draws on Gia lễ giản yếu and ethnographic records, with layouts for each case.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship Year-end altar cleaning runs from the 23rd of the 12th lunar month to before New Year's Eve. A guide to the cleaning order, the incense bowl, and folk taboos.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship How many incense sticks? Folk custom burns 1, 3 or 5 because odd numbers are yang; Việt Nam phong tục only records one, a few or three to five sticks.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Northern Kinh households once set outdoor incense altars to Sơn thần and Thần Hổ, some building shrines to Mộc tinh at old tree bases.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Custom books explain the Tiền Chủ as the first owner's spirit, why many homes keep a cây hương altar in the yard, and how offerings are made.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The steps of bốc mộ cải táng as Phan Kế Bính records them: telling the ancestors, opening the grave, gathering the bones and reburial; current rules.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The 100-day memorial does not require an upturned rice bowl and egg: Phan Kế Bính lists them for giỗ feasts, not for the tốt khốc rite.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Văn Trai Thượng incense village in Hưng Yên makes handmade incense from natural herbs, creating fragrant, low-smoke sticks.
Updated 5 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Bát Trạch derives a personal trigram from birth year and gender, then matches it to eight directions to choose a desk orientation, with measuring tips.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Thôn Cao incense village in Hưng Yên is Northern Vietnam's largest incense-making craft village, its 18th-century craft tied to ancestress Đào Thị Khương.
Updated 13 Jun 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
Dictionary › Feng shui 24 Sơn Hướng is a system of 24 positions on the feng shui compass, each spanning 15 degrees, used to determine the orientation of houses and graves.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Bát Trạch feng shui uses your Kua number, from birth year and gender, to sort people into East or West Life Groups and find auspicious directions.
Updated 19 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Discover Vietnam's century-old incense villages, where the spiritual culture is preserved through each handmade stick, from Quảng Phú Cầu to Thủy Xuân.
Updated 7 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Feng shui Bát Trạch (Eight Mansions) sorts houses into eight types by the eight trigrams and pairs them with the owner's trigram number.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Discover the distinctive features of Huong Pagoda Festival: the pilgrimage journey through Yen Stream, the cave pagoda complex and offering rituals.
Updated 28 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › I Ching & Five Elements Bát Quái are the eight basic trigrams of the I Ching, each made of three yin or yang lines that symbolize eight natural phenomena.
Updated 12 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 › I Ching Tuần không in Lục Hào: the two branches missing from a ten-day cycle, how to find them for the six Giáp cycles, and what Tăng san bốc dịch says.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Dui House in the West Group: its traits, how to identify it, favorable directions, remedies, and practical uses for West Group people.
Updated 23 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Kan houses in Bazhai Feng Shui: five-element traits, compatible directions, and guidance on the main door, bedroom, and kitchen for Kan ming people.
Updated 8 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Explore Li House of the East Group in Ba Zhai: five-element traits, trigram fate, compatible house directions, and remedies when facing incompatibility.
Updated 20 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Qian House is one of the Western Four Houses in Ba Zhai Feng Shui, with West, Northeast, Southwest and Northwest as its favorable directions.
Updated 4 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Gen House in West Group Ba Zhai Feng Shui: its Earth element, Gen trigram, and the auspicious and inauspicious directions tied to it.
Updated 10 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Xun house in the East Group suits Xun life palace people. Its favorable directions: Sheng Qi North, Tian Yi East, Yan Nian South, Fu Wei Southeast.
Updated 23 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Zhen House in Bazhai Feng Shui: its Wood traits, the gua numbers it suits, and its favorable and unfavorable directions for Zhen ming people.
Updated 28 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Kun House is one of Ba Zhai Feng Shui's West Group, tied to the Kun trigram and southwest, with five-element traits and compatible directions.
Updated 3 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Bát Tràng pottery appears in written records from the 14th century; this article traces its history and the steps from clay to kiln.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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
Dictionary › Bát Tự (Four Pillars) BaZi, or Four Pillars, is a traditional destiny analysis system built on the birth year, month, day, and hour, each with a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Hữu Bật is one of the Six Auspicious Stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu, symbolizing assistance, support and good fortune for the destiny holder.
Updated 24 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts The 100-year-old Phia Thắp incense craft of the Nùng An people in Cao Bằng uses natural materials and a fully handmade process.
Updated 21 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The wealth position at home: Bát Trạch finds Sinh Khí by life trigram, Huyền Không by the ruling star, the popular way by the door's diagonal.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Tả Phù and Hữu Bật in Tử Vi: placed by lunar birth month from Thìn and Tuất, sharing Mùi (month 4) or Sửu (month 10), as read in Vietnamese Tử Vi books.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Khon Mountain in the 24 mountain directions: its Yin Earth element, Shen-Zi-Chen trine group, and reading sitting Khon facing Gen.
Updated 15 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Xun Mountain in the 24 Mountains system sits in the Xun palace (Southeast) and belongs to Wood. Here is its meaning and its combinations.
Updated 26 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Four classics of Lục Hào compared: Hỏa Châu Lâm, Hoàng Kim Sách, Tăng San Bốc Dịch and Bốc Phệ Chính Tông, who is named as author and what each one does.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief A guide to the Vietnamese housewarming ritual (nhập trạch): the offerings and each step in order, from the auspicious date to moving in.
Updated 26 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Fire Jumping Festival of the Pà Thẻn people is a sacred shamanic ritual seeking the fire god's protection, with barefoot jumps on glowing embers.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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 › 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 › Festival customs What to bring to a Vietnamese pagoda at New Year: incense, flowers, fruit and other vegetarian offerings, and which altar to pay respects at first.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The Four Dharma Deities at Dau Pagoda in Bắc Ninh blend Indian Buddhism with ancient Vietnamese nature worship of Cloud, Rain, Thunder and Lightning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food The 15th day of the 7th lunar month has three offering trays: a vegetarian tray for Buddha, a full tray for ancestors, and one for wandering souls.
Updated 7 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
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