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 › 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 › Traditional festivals Explore the Lùng Tùng Festival of the Thai people in the Northwest: origins, the Nàng Han ritual, agricultural significance, and festive activities.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Pặt Oong is the Pu Péo people's key agricultural ritual, held at the new year to ward off evil spirits and pray for a bountiful harvest.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Lê Lợi led the Lam Sơn uprising from 1418 to 1427, expelling the Ming and founding the Later Le dynasty, honoured still at the Lam Kinh Festival.
Updated 24 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs 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.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Why 14 major stars form only 24 same-palace combinations, the six groups led by Tử Vi and Phủ Tướng Sát Tham Phá, and how to read each pair correctly.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Ancestor worship A Western Mekong Delta đám giỗ spans tiên thường, chánh giỗ and hậu thường. Hosting guests and giving take-home portions show a compassionate way of life.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Why Buddha's Birthday falls on the 8th or the 15th of the fourth lunar month, and how the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha holds Vesak Week each year.
Updated 13 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The Tướng Quân star of the Lộc Tồn ring is placed by birth year stem and gender. This covers the counting method and a table for all ten stems.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Ancestor worship Giỗ hậu is the custom of people without heirs giving money or land to their clan, village, or pagoda to be offered ancestor rituals after death.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot 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.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Chính Thần is the ruling period direction, Linh Thần the opposite palace. How to tell Chính Thủy from Linh Thủy and locate Thành Môn in each period.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Tam Long traces a dragon vein from its distant source peak through to tong son, thieu to son and phu mau son to where it settles.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Chu Tước, one of the six lục thú of Lục Hào: placed by the day stem, linked with speech, letters and disputes in Tăng san bốc dịch.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Explore how the I Ching, through its 64 hexagrams and the principle of yin and yang, reflects on physical and mental health.
Updated 4 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Khụ Sự Chà, the Hà Nhì New Rice Festival in Mường Nhé, Điện Biên, thanks ancestors with floating cakes, pig liver divination and glutinous rice pounding.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Astrology Explore the Fixed signs in astrology: personality traits, archetypal meaning, and the four signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs How did Hanoians celebrate Tết from the early 20th century to today? From Hàng Lược flower market and offering trays to ration coupons and the market now.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The Áp Hô Pang hair washing ritual of the White Thai in Quỳnh Nhai, Sơn La, tied to the Nàng Han legend, cleanses the old year and welcomes new fortune.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Mo Mường funeral verses guide the soul back to the ancestors in Mường Trời, with the Mo master as a bridge and ethical values for descendants.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot The World is card 21 in the Major Arcana, marking completion, wholeness and total achievement, with a reversed side of delay and lack of closure.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
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 › Folk belief After UNESCO recognition in 2016, medium masters and ban hoi still teach and uphold hau dong norms while adjusting practice to heritage conservation demands.
Updated 28 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The rites after a Vietnamese funeral: the ngu rites, the 49th and 100th days, tiểu tường, đại tường and the end of mourning, as old ritual books record.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Lễ tơ hồng honors Ông Tơ Bà Nguyệt after the bride arrives; lễ hợp cẩn has the couple share wine and betel in the bridal chamber. Rites and meaning.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › The twelve zodiac animals Folk tips for naming a 2027 Đinh Mùi child: choosing Nho radicals, five elements, and can chi to suit the Mùi zodiac, plus what to avoid.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the meaning of The Fool in Tarot and the concept of the Fool's Journey, how the 22 Major Arcana cards narrate the stages of human growth and life.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The 64 hexagrams divide into eight palaces, from the pure hexagram through the fifth generation to Wandering Soul and Returning Soul.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Tam nguyên splits each solar term into three five-day spans, each with one Kỳ Môn cục. The 24-term table follows the Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Huyền Quang (Lý Đạo Tái), third patriarch of the Trúc Lâm Zen school after Trần Nhân Tông and Pháp Loa, is profiled via his life, deeds and surviving poetry.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional dress Khan Dong and Ao The were formal wear for Vietnamese men, reflecting elegance and propriety, now revived for Tet, weddings and ceremonies.
Updated 3 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 42 Phong Lôi Ích in the 64 I Ching hexagrams: wind above thunder below, the Judgment, the Image, and reducing the top to add to the bottom.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Yên Tử Festival honours Emperor-Buddha Trần Nhân Tông, founder of the Trúc Lâm Zen sect, with its rituals and spiritual meaning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship The Buddha altar usually sits higher than the ancestor altar, but the exact layout depends on each home's space and regional or family tradition.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Grand Memorial for Buddha Emperor Trần Nhân Tông's Parinirvana is held at Cung Trúc Lâm, Yên Tử and Ngọa Vân Pagoda each year.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Duyên phận is a folk way of speaking about meetings as if preordained. Nhân duyên in Buddhism means conditions that give rise to phenomena, not fate.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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