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The First-Foot Custom at Lunar New Year: Origins, How Old Vietnamese Chose the First Visitor, and How the Custom Is ChangingChoosing a First-Foot Visitor by Age Compatibility: Folk Practice, Common Taboos, and the Limits of That ApproachChoosing Auspicious Times and Directions for the First Outing of the Year: The Lucky Customs of Tet's First DayApplying Five Elements: Choosing the Right House Direction for Your DestinyHow does the first-visitor custom differ between the North, Huế and the South of Vietnam?How Is the First Death Anniversary (Tiểu Tường) Date Calculated in a Year with a Leap Month?
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Choosing a First-Foot Visitor by Age Compatibility: Folk Practice, Common Taboos, and the Limits of That Approach
Choosing a first-foot visitor by age compatibility: folk criteria, offerings, step-by-step practice, common taboos, and the limits to keep in mind.
First-footing for the 2027 Year of the Goat: how to choose an age, and why every household ends up with a different list
For Lunar New Year 2027, there is no single correct first-footer list. Compare the trine and six-harmony groups, the host's age and the guest's character.
The First Peak in Numerology: Life Stage and Meaning
Explore the meaning and calculation of the first peak in numerology, a crucial stage that shapes the foundation of one's life.
The First-Foot Custom at Lunar New Year: Origins, How Old Vietnamese Chose the First Visitor, and How the Custom Is Changing
First-footing is an old Vietnamese Tet custom: the first person to enter a home after midnight is believed to carry the year's fortune.
How to Perform the Groundbreaking Ceremony for Building a House Properly
A guide to the Vietnamese groundbreaking ceremony: choosing an auspicious date, preparing offerings, and the ritual steps.
Choosing Auspicious Times and Directions for the First Outing of the Year: The Lucky Customs of Tet's First Day
The first outing and calligraphy of the new year are Vietnamese luck-bringing customs. See how times and directions are chosen by lunar calendar and deities.
Applying Five Elements: Choosing the Right House Direction for Your Destiny
Applying the Five Elements to house direction, paint colors and interior layout can support harmony and balanced energy in your living space.
How does the first-visitor custom differ between the North, Huế and the South of Vietnam?
Xông đất, xông nhà and đạp đất are one new-year custom. Books on the North, Huế and the South differ on its name, lộc-picking and the vào khem wait.
How Is the First Death Anniversary (Tiểu Tường) Date Calculated in a Year with a Leap Month?
Tiểu tường keeps the lunar date of death in the next year, as Gia lễ does not count leap months; some count a full 12 lunar months, one month earlier.
Choosing an Auspicious Year to Build a House: Kim Lau, Hoang Ốc, Tam Tai, and the Vietnamese Custom of Borrowing Age
Kim Lau, Hoang Ốc and Tam Tai restrictions shape the Vietnamese custom of borrowing age to pick a year for building a house.
How Are Rice Offerings Made on the First Three Days of Tết? Accounts from the North, Huế and the South
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.
Làm Chay Festival in Tầm Vu, Tây Ninh: How Do the 15th and 16th of the First Lunar Month Unfold?
The Làm Chay Festival in Tầm Vu, Tây Ninh runs on the 15th and 16th of the first lunar month, with rituals welcoming Ong Tieu and more.
Lồng Tồng Festival of the Tay People: The First Plowing Ceremony and Cultural Values
Lồng Tồng, the Tay people's first plowing festival of spring, features rites to the Agriculture God and folk games wishing for a good year.
The Four Jhānas in the Pali Canon: How the First to Fourth Jhāna Are Described
How the Pali suttas describe the four jhānas, from the first with applied and sustained thought, rapture and pleasure to the fourth with equanimity.
What goes on the first death anniversary (tiểu tường) offering tray and how does it differ from an ordinary death anniversary?
Giỗ đầu (tiểu tường) is the first death anniversary, with a tray of cơm úp, boiled egg, chicken, xôi and vàng mã, more solemn than an ordinary giỗ.
Bodhidharma: The Legend of the First Patriarch of Chan and What Historical Sources Actually Say
Bodhidharma is honoured as the first patriarch of Chan, but that image formed over many layers of texts, and many familiar details are legend.
Rằm Tháng Giêng (Tết Nguyên Tiêu): The First Full Moon and Temple-Going Traditions
Rằm Tháng Giêng, the lunar year's first full moon, brings temple visits and star-releasing rites, with the saying "a year of offerings cannot match this one.
How to Arrange the Full Moon of the First Lunar Month Offering Tray for the Family: What to Offer, How Many Trays, How to Place Them
How to set out Ram thang Gieng (first full moon) offering trays at home: how many trays, vegetarian or savory dishes, order of offering, layout and taboos.
Offering for the Full Moon of the First Lunar Month on the 14th or 15th, and at What Hour? A Complete Understanding and Practice
The First Lunar Month full moon runs from the 14th night to the end of the 15th; families may offer on the 14th evening or 15th morning, sincerely.
First-day Tet travel for the 2027 Lunar New Year: how to choose the hour and direction, and where sources disagree
First-day Tet travel for 2027: how to choose the hour and direction, prepare offerings, and follow the route, plus why sources disagree on the calculations.
The Rước cộ Bà Chợ Được Festival: Who Is Bà Chợ Được and How Does the Festival Unfold Around the 11th Day of the First Lunar Month?
The Rước cộ Bà Chợ Được Festival honours Bà at her shrine in Phước Ấm hamlet, Thăng An commune, Đà Nẵng, around the 11th day of the first lunar month.
Five Elements Application: Choosing an Auspicious House Number
Apply the Five Elements and your Gua number to pick an auspicious house number, interpreting each digit to support harmony for the homeowner.
Why Vietnamese worship on the first day of the lunar month: the meaning of the Sóc day in folk belief
The Sóc day opens the lunar month. Vietnamese worship ancestors and deities for a smooth month, a custom rooted in yin-yang philosophy.
Can You Celebrate the Full Moon of the First Lunar Month on the 13th or 14th, and Where Does the Early Offering Custom Come From?
Is offering the First Full Moon on the 13th or 14th lunar day acceptable, where does the early custom come from, and what should the tray include?
Worshipping the God of Wealth on the 10th Day of the First Lunar Month: Origins and How to Prepare the Offering Tray
The 10th day of the first lunar month is when many Vietnamese, especially in the South, worship the God of Wealth to pray for a good year.
Five Elements in Practice: Choosing Lucky Colors for Your Destiny
Discover how to apply the Five Elements theory to choose interior colors and clothing that match your destiny, balancing energy and supporting life.
Five Elements Application: Choosing a Car That Matches Your Destiny
Choose car color and direction by the Five Elements and your destiny, balancing energy through mutual generation and control to support luck while driving.
Five Elements Application: Choosing a Career That Matches Your Destiny
Discover how to apply the Five Elements theory (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth) to choose a career that aligns with your destiny.
Vía Ngọc Hoàng on the 9th of the First Lunar Month and Worship at Chùa Ngọc Hoàng in Ho Chi Minh City
Vía Ngọc Hoàng falls on the 9th day of the first lunar month. How people worship at Chùa Ngọc Hoàng in Ho Chi Minh City, and the temple's history.
What Do The Sun and The Moon Side by Side in Tarot Say?
Placing The Sun beside The Moon contrasts the light and dark poles of the Major Arcana. What Waite wrote, how the pair is read today, and its limits.
The First White Star in the Nine Stars of Xuan Kong Flying Stars: Auspicious and Inauspicious Meanings and How to Resolve Them
The First White Star in Xuan Kong Flying Stars governs wealth, fame and intelligence in good positions, but disputes and illness in bad ones.
Should Thanh Minh Offerings Be Made at Home First or at the Grave First According to Custom?
Vietnam's Thanh Minh custom often means tending graves first, then offering to ancestors at home; this examines origins, sequence and exceptions in old texts.
Choosing departure dates, blessing a new vehicle, hanging safety amulets: how do Vietnamese seek road safety through spirituality?
Vietnamese travellers use departure dates, vehicle blessings and safety amulets to manage risk on uncertain roads, an anthropologist finds.
Five Elements Application: Choosing a Wedding Date Compatible with Your Destiny
Apply the Five Elements to pick a wedding date, weighing the couple's destiny elements against the day's element for a harmonious start.
First-Furrow Festivals of the New Year: Lồng Tồng of the Tày, Highland First-Furrow Festivals, and the Kinh Royal Ploughing Ceremony
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.
What Is Am Trach and How Does Grave Feng Shui Differ from Duong Trach: Choosing the Huyen, Minh Duong, and Thuy Khau of a Grave, and How Far Vietnam's Cai Tang Custom Relates to Feng Shui
Am Trach is grave feng shui, judged by huyen, minh duong and thuy khau, unlike Duong Trach for the living. It covers Phạm Đình Hổ's view and cai tang.
What to Do After a Breakup: Five Stages of Grief, What to Do in the First Week, and How to Close a Relationship
A guide to breakup grief: the emotional stages, what to do in the first week, handling keepsakes, and when to see a therapist.
Sinh Village Wrestling Festival (Lại Ân Village) in Hue: the 10th day of the first lunar month, wrestling rules, and a history of more than 400 years
Sinh Village wrestling festival in Lại Ân Village, Hue, falls on the 10th day of the first lunar month and follows the muddy back, white belly rule.
Hiền Quan Phet Festival in Phú Thọ: Events on the 12th and 13th of the First Lunar Month, and Why the Phet Ball Has Not Been Tossed Since 2019?
Hiền Quan Phet Festival in Phú Thọ runs on the 12th and 13th of the first lunar month with palanquin procession, worship, troop march, and phet grabbing.
First-Footer & New Year Card 2027
Who should first-foot your home this Tết, plus a New Year card.