🔢 Hexagram 45 of 64 (King Wen order) ☯ Upper ☱ Dui, lower ☷ Kun 📜 Chinese name: 萃 Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 45, Tsui (Gathering Together, 萃), covers the judgment, image, and six lines on how groups form and why shared ground and trust hold them.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date and hour selection Year-end dates for the gathering, altar cleaning, debt repayment and New Year opening: lunar calendar principles and flexible use without superstition.
Updated 16 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 › Vietnam › Folk belief Folk belief, harmful superstition and pseudoscience differ in nature. Definitions and examples show how to tell cultural faith from fraud.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy A practical guide to reading the Five Features in Eastern physiognomy: how to observe each feature, pair them in correlation, and avoid one-sided conclusions.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the symbolism of the Three of Cups Tarot card, from the image of three dancing women to its meaning of friendship, community, and celebration.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Tong Ren (Union of Men), Hexagram 13 of the I Ching, joins Heaven and Fire. Its structure speaks of harmony, openness and shared purpose in cooperation.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship Combining death anniversaries into one day is a practical choice for families whose children work far away. Here is what is reasonable and what to watch for.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Dong Chi is the 22nd solar term and the shortest day of the year. For the Chinese community it is Tết Đông Chi, a time for che troi nuoc and ancestor worship.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship What does a giỗ require? Offerings, the offering tray, the prayer text and the order of the day, drawn from Vietnamese historical sources.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Kinh Dịch hội is an umbrella term for the independent groups, clubs, classes and online communities that study the Kinh Dịch together in Vietnam.
Updated 3 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The Tử Phủ Vũ Tướng set in Vietnamese Tử Vi: its four stars, how they are placed, when the pattern forms and how three manuals read it.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Giap mountain sits in the due East, is a yang Wood stem in the Hai-Mao-Wei trine, and anchors the Wood bureau. Here is its meaning across feng shui schools.
Updated 7 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Explore Tham Lang in Purple Star Astrology: its desire-and-charm origin, versatile talents, dignity meanings, and readings for the Life and Marriage palaces.
Updated 18 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The Xíp Xí Tet of the White Thai people in Vietnam's Northwest is a festival for children, with rituals to worship spirits and ward off disease.
Updated 13 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Tam Hoi joins three consecutive branches of one season; Tam Hop joins three branches one step apart along the Trường Sinh cycle.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
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 › 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
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Địa Không and Địa Kiếp in Vietnamese Tử Vi: placed by birth hour from the Hợi palace, sharing a palace at Hợi or Tỵ, with đắc and hãm by each book.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Wind Heaven Xiao Xu hexagram (Hexagram 9) in the I Ching: its origins, structure, meaning, and lessons on patience and gradual accumulation.
Updated 15 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs The post-Tet ancestor farewell rite varies by region: hóa vàng in the North, tiễn ông bà in the Center, cúng tất in the South.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Chut people of Vietnam include the May, Ruc, Sach, Arem and Mã Liềng subgroups, living mainly in the mountains of Quảng Bình.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Mid-Autumn Festival customs differ across Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam, from northern rituals to lively Central festivals and Southern gift-giving.
Updated 29 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Minh đường is the ground in front of a grave or house where energy gathers. How loan đầu books divide it: small, middle, large, inner and outer.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi The Twelve Stages of Growth in Bát Tự form a life-cycle model from Birth to Nurture, gauging how strong a Heavenly Stem is across the twelve Earthly Branches.
Updated 14 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Northern and Central Vietnam stress ancestral offerings and the pest-killing ritual on Đoan Ngọ, while the South keeps things simpler.
Updated 10 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam Northern Vietnam worship includes ancestor veneration, Thành hoàng, Mother Goddess and folk rites, reflecting uống nước nhớ nguồn and the wish for peace.
Updated 6 Oct 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship Giỗ hết đại tường marks the end of two years of mourning. It covers the offering tray, how to arrange it, and the sequence for xả tang in Vietnamese custom.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The Tày and Nùng buffalo celebration on 6/6 lunar honors the buffalo after transplanting and prays for healthy herds and a bountiful harvest.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Christmas in Vietnam centers on the December 24 vigil and the December 25 main Mass, with the nativity grotto and tree, now shared by non-Catholics too.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Phúc Đức is the tenth star of the Thái Tuế cycle in Vietnamese Tử Vi, nine palaces from the birth-year branch. Placement and what four books say.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The Bru-Van Kieu of the Trường Sơn mountains follow animism, believing all things have a soul. Shamans link humans to the spirit world in rituals.
Updated 1 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên La and Địa Võng in Vietnamese Tử Vi: two fixed stars at the Thìn and Tuất palaces, why they are called La Võng, and Thiên Lương's Đà La condition.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The Táng Thư says qi scatters in wind and stops at water, hence phong thủy; water comes first, storing wind second. Read against the Chinese text.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals How children celebrate Mid-Autumn in northern, central and southern Vietnam: lantern parades, lion dances and the moon-viewing feast.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Long Đức is a star of the Thái Tuế ring in Vietnamese Tử Vi. See how it is placed from the birth-year Branch and what four Vietnamese books say.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Quan họ Bắc Ninh is call-and-response folk singing between liền anh and liền chị of twinned villages, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs What was Tet like in Vietnam's subsidy era? Ration coupons, the Tet food bag, pre-dawn queues and shared bánh chưng pots, as remembered in the press.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Chu Ru are one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, living in Lâm Đồng and Ninh Thuận and speaking a Malayo-Polynesian language.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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