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Knowledge › Western › Psychology Many people know a taboo has no scientific basis yet still follow it. Psychology calls this acquiescence, a mechanism that reconciles intuition and reason.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Hanoi field research shows sao giai han attendees span many ages and jobs, drawn by belief in inauspicious stars and peace of mind.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Why vague fortune-telling clips spread online: the Barnum effect, confirmation bias, the need for control, and algorithms that favour controversial content.
Updated 22 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Psychology Prices ending in 8, 88 or 168 may attract buyers. Research on superstition and price clustering shows lucky numbers can work as a pricing tool.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Contagious magic rests on two laws: contact transfers properties, and similarity means shared essence. Rozin's 1986 experiments show they still shape us.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The New Moon marks the start of a lunar cycle of about 29.5 days, a phase for setting intentions and beginning new projects.
Updated 26 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
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 › 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 › Western › Astrology Explore the astrological meaning of the Full Moon: emotional peak, culmination, and the impact of the lunar cycle on human life.
Updated 14 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Psychology The illusion of control explains why choosing your own lottery numbers or casting your own hexagram makes a random result feel more trustworthy.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
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 › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Việt star in Zi Wei Dou Shu: its position and meaning among the Six Auspicious Stars, and how it shapes intellect, scholarship and career.
Updated 25 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Bạch Lộ (White Dew), the 15th solar term, starts around 7 or 8 September as night vapour condenses into white dew, marking mid-autumn in the calendar.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The eight hạn of folk belief: Huỳnh Tuyền, Tam Kheo, Ngũ Mộ, Thiên Tinh, Toán Tận, Thiên La, Địa Võng, Diêm Vương. Which books record them, how they differ.
Updated 15 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Philosophy of science Before a claim, split it into statement, reason, and evidence, then ask five questions. Common errors include confirmation bias and sunk cost.
Updated 13 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Zi Wei Dou Shu charts can miss real life for three reasons: faulty birth data, the reader's skill and sources, and the method's limits.
Updated 17 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Thất Tịch falls on the evening of the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, tied to the Ngưu Lang and Chức Nữ legend. Red bean chè is a young people's habit.
Updated 15 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 › Folk belief The Ruc, a Chut subgroup in the Trường Sơn mountains, worship mountain and forest deities and hold that the dead return to the sacred forest.
Updated 25 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Pà Thẻn live in Hà Giang and Tuyên Quang and speak a Hmông-Dao language. Their customs include ancestor worship and the new rice ceremony.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Gia Rai speak a Malayo-Polynesian language and live mainly in Gia Lai, Kon Tum and Đắk Lắk, with a matrilineal society that worships Yang spirits.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Thẩm Trúc Nhưng, a Qing geomancy master of the Huyền Không school, is named in Trạch vận tân án as the one who published the Hoán tinh formula.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The Cha Chaih (An Than) ritual of the Giẻ Triêng people sends 7 young men into the forest for chaih charcoal, with vows to spirits and tool forging.
Updated 18 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Chen direction in the 24 feng shui directions: its Earth element, Zhen trigram link, and what this direction means for career and wealth.
Updated 22 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy How does science view face reading? From 19th-century criminal anthropology to modern psychology, plus the misconceptions to avoid.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Tang and Song records on Lý Hư Trung and Từ Tử Bình show Tử Bình has layered origins, with source texts like Lý Hư Trung mệnh thư altered over time.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp casts a chart for a moment to assess fortune and misfortune. A full chart stacks four plates on the nine palaces of the Lạc Thư grid.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar The Vietnamese lunar calendar is actually a lunisolar calendar combining the moon's phases and Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures An Dương Vương, the state of Âu Lạc and Cổ Loa citadel in the old histories and the legend of the magic crossbow: the Thục house, dates and site.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief 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.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Astrology Alan Leo (1910) gave the Sun sign to the individual and the Moon sign to the personality, reading 144 pairs together. We read his text and note its limits.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs 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.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Cờ Lao live mainly in Hà Giang and speak a Ka Đai language. They worship ancestors, the earth god, and rice spirits.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › The twelve zodiac animals Tứ hành xung and lục hại in the 12 zodiac animals are folk conventions, not science, for judging a child's zodiac against parents.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Philosophy of science What is pseudoscience? A look at the definition, Popper's demarcation criterion, critiques from Duhem, Quine and Kuhn, and the practical stakes involved.
Updated 13 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Tử vi trọn đời casts one chart from the birth hour to read a whole life through mệnh, thân, the twelve palaces and vận hạn. It is a conventional reading.
Updated 9 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology The Tử star in the Trường Sinh cycle marks the final stage, endings and transformation, and this guide covers all 12 stages of the cycle on the Tử Vi chart.
Updated 18 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Explore the detailed sequence of 6 traditional Vietnamese wedding ceremonies: Chạm Ngõ, Ăn Hỏi, Xin Dâu, Đón Dâu, wedding banquet, and Lại Mặt.
Updated 2 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Daily horoscope forecasts by con giáp or lá số Tử Vi: this piece analyses origins, reading methods, limits and sensible use.
Updated 3 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Vietnam's 2016 Law on Belief and Religion separates belief from religion, yet researchers still debate whether Mother Goddess Worship is a religion.
Updated 28 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions What goes on a southern Vietnamese giỗ tray and how a Mekong Delta death anniversary is held: the dishes, the two days, and the portions guests take home.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Si La people live in Mường Tè, Lai Châu, speak a Tibeto-Burman language, worship ancestors, and hold the altar rite, New Year and new rice festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Hát xẩm is a northern Vietnamese folk singing craft dated to about the 14th century, sung at markets, village yards and on Hanoi trams.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Eating God in BaZi's Ten Gods: its meaning, traits, and use in destiny analysis. See how it shapes talent, career and fortune in a chart.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
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