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Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Chữ Nôm is the writing system Vietnamese people built from Chinese character material to record their own language, still seen on hoành phi and câu đối.
Updated 23 Sept 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 › Tet customs Where Tet couplets come from, where Vietnamese families pasted them (door, pillars, ancestor altar), and the basic rules of parallelism for writing one.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Glossary Nhật Nguyệt is the Sino-Vietnamese pair for sun and moon, symbolizing yin and yang, time, and the cosmos in East Asian culture.
Updated 16 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures The 40 AD uprising of Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị, its causes and significance, plus Hát Môn Temple in Hanoi, the sacred site tied to their final days.
Updated 9 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Enneagram Type 4 Individualists move toward Type 1 discipline when healthy and toward Type 2 neediness under stress, explains this Enneagram guide to both arrows.
Updated 19 Aug 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship Hoành phi is a horizontal plaque above the family altar, câu đối parallel sentences on side columns or walls, honoring ancestors and praising their merits.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship Northern and Southern Vietnamese family altars differ in structure, arrangement, generations honored and five-fruit tray choices.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi Bi Jian (Friend) in BaZi: its meaning, traits, and dual role in chart reading, helping a weak self but causing rivalry when strong.
Updated 15 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
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 › Historical figures The Kỳ Yên festival at Thoại Ngọc Hầu communal house in An Giang honors the Nguyen dynasty mandarin who dug the Vĩnh Tế Canal.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Whale worship and the Cầu Ngư festival form the spiritual core of South Central Coast fishing villages, tied to the sea and fishermen's beliefs.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy How to read the Marriage Line on the palm: its position below the little finger, plus length, depth, clarity and intersecting lines.
Updated 1 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Beyond the 23rd-of-Chạp send-off, Táo Quân watches over the hearth and household year-round. Explore the Kitchen God's everyday role and altar practice.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Tep Temple festival for Trung Túc Vương Lê Lai in Kiên Thọ commune, Thanh Hóa falls on the 21st of the 8th lunar month and the 8th of the 1st lunar month.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Physiognomy Explore the meanings of major palm lines such as life, head, heart, and fate lines in Eastern tradition along with a scientific perspective.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs How Lunar New Year among the Hoa of Chợ Lớn differs from Vietnamese Tết: Kitchen God send-off, offerings, bánh tổ, assembly halls, visiting order.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs The name "Tết Nguyên Đán" comes from "Tiết," a marker in the agricultural calendar, and "Nguyên Đán," meaning the first morning of the new year.
Updated 6 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou Shu Nhật Nguyệt pairs Thái Dương and Thái Âm in Tử Vi, two stars whose meaning shifts with palace position and birth hour. Position decides how they read.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Đông Sơn bronze drums: their dating, casting techniques, star motifs, Lac birds and frog figures, and what these reveal about ancient Vietnamese beliefs.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Folk traditional practices A practical guide to reading the five major lines as one interacting system, with steps for comparing both hands and staying objective.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Cư trần lạc đạo phú by Trần Nhân Tông: ten sections in Nôm and a closing verse in Hán, on living in the world while delighting in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts How Hàng Trống, Kim Hoàng, làng Sình and Đông Hồ Tet paintings differ in printing technique, paper, colours and subjects, and where each craft stands.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Tết in Sài Gòn: the Nguyễn Huệ flower market from 1960 and flower street from 2004, the flower boats of Bình Đông wharf, and how families keep Tết.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZi The heavenly stems in Bát Tự: the four clashing pairs, the pairs that only overcome one another, and how Trích Thiên Tủy speaks of stems at war.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Đại Bái village in Bắc Ninh is the cradle of bronze casting in Northern Vietnam, with about 1000 years of history and refined engraving art.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Khai bút, the Vietnamese custom of writing the first words of the new year: its legend of teacher Chu Văn An, when people do it, and what to write.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Other Phù Ức is a balancing principle in BaZi that uses supportive deities when the Day Master is weak and restraining deities when it is strong to achieve harmony.
Updated 21 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Tho people speak a Việt Mường language and live mainly in western Nghệ An and Thanh Hoá, with their own worship of spirits, ancestors and midwife deities.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Bà Chúa Kho of the Ly Dynasty, her legends, the year-opening custom of borrowing luck and the rituals at her temple in Bắc Ninh.
Updated 4 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs The Neu pole is raised on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and lowered on the 7th of the first month, closing Tet. Its origins, meaning.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days Vietnam Doctors' Day (February 27) traces back to Ho Chi Minh's 1955 letter to a health cadres conference. Learn its origin, three teachings, and meaning.
Updated 9 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot Explore the detailed symbolism and deep meaning of The Moon tarot card, from its imagery and symbols to its interpretation in readings.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Day divination traces back to rishu day books excavated from Warring States, Qin and Han tombs, already systematized by the 3rd century BCE.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Four traditional Vietnamese house types compared: the northern three-bay house, Hue rường house, Central Highlands rông house and Northwest stilt house.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Dictionary › Other Bệnh Dược (病藥, 'disease and medicine') is a BaZi principle that finds a chart's flaw and picks the Useful God to correct it, seeking Five Elements balance.
Updated 21 Sept 2026
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 › Eastern › Feng shui Dinh mountain sits in the Xun trigram, Wood element, Yin nature, between 157. 5 and 172. 5 degrees on the feng shui compass.
Updated 28 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
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