Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui In 968 Đinh Bộ Lĩnh made Hoa Lư the capital of Đại Cồ Việt: limestone peaks formed a natural wall and the Hoàng Long River a water route.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui The 1010 Edict on the Relocation of the Capital describes Đại La as the center of heaven and earth, with the posture of a coiling dragon and crouching tiger.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Held each year at Hoa Lư Ancient Capital, Ninh Bình, this festival honors King Đinh Bộ Lĩnh, founder of Đại Cồ Việt state.
Updated 8 Aug 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 › Folk belief Bạch Mã Temple in Hanoi guards the East of Thăng Long's Four Guardian Temples and worships Long Đỗ, the city's tutelary god.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Hue culture blends Nguyen dynasty court ritual with folk belief, Mother Goddess worship, and festivals like the Am Hon ceremony and Huệ Nam Temple festival.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Counts in Thái Ất: the host count and guest count, long and short counts, and what Thái Ất kim kính thức kinh calls harmonious and not.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
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 › 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
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 › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Explore the Lư Trung Hỏa (Fire in the Furnace) na am for Bính Dần and Đinh Mão years: Five Elements characteristics, feng shui meanings, colors, and guidance.
Updated 2 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shui Hám Long Kinh and Nghi Long Kinh, traditionally attributed to Dương Quân Tùng: how they read dragon veins, the nine stars, and true versus branch dragons.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hồi đầu sinh, hồi đầu khắc, hóa không, hóa mộ, hóa tuyệt are the ways a moving line transforms in Lục Hào, explained via Tăng San Bốc Dịch.
Updated 14 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Mai Hoa Dịch Số builds I Ching hexagrams from numbers, sounds and moments instead of coins. Tradition assigns it to Thiệu Ung, without proof.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching In Liu Yao, a moving line and the changed line it turns into are read as a pair, producing hoi dau sinh, hoi dau khac, hoa tien than, hoa thoai than and more.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Tam Thức Bát Môn in Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp covers the eight gates Huu, Sinh, Thuong, Do, Canh, Tu, Kinh and Khai, their trigram and element origins, and which favor a matter.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 56 Hỏa Sơn Lữ concerns the way of the wanderer in a strange land: small success, staying upright, humility brings peace, arrogance invites disaster.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Explore the Tang Đố Mộc (Mulberry Wood) Na Yin in the Sexagenary Cycle: its origins, Five Elements characteristics, Feng Shui meaning, and applications.
Updated 29 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Stems, branches & zodiac animals The Sixty Jiazi is a cycle of 60 sexagenary combinations of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches used to number years, months, days and hours.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology What Sơn Đầu Hỏa means in Lục Thập Hoa Giáp: its Fire element traits, and how Giáp Tuất and Ất Hợi natives can balance a strong, decisive nature.
Updated 7 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Tử Vi (Zi Wei Dou Shu) Tứ Hóa are the four stars Hóa Lộc, Hóa Quyền, Hóa Khoa and Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi astrology, standing for prosperity, power, reputation and adversity.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Dictionary › Western astrology A natal chart maps the Sun, Moon and planets across the 12 zodiac signs and 12 houses at your birth moment, used in Western astrology.
Updated 12 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Kinh (Viet) are 86.83% of Vietnam's population and speak Vietnamese of the Việt Mường group. Their villages and ancestor worship are covered here.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Explore the custom of black teeth staining, once a beauty standard of the Lu people in Lai Châu, along with other unique cultural values being preserved.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Hội Lim is the largest Quan Ho festival in the Kinh Bắc region, held on the 13th day of the first lunar month at Lim Hill, Tiên Du, Bắc Ninh.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Phi hóa: a palace's stem turns a star into Lộc, Quyền, Khoa or Kỵ and sends it to that star's palace. Tự hóa: it does so within itself.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Kình Dương, one of the Six Killing Stars in Tử Vi Đẩu Số, is a Fire element star of impulsiveness and danger that also brings willpower.
Updated 25 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Kinh Trập, the third of the 24 solar terms at solar longitude 345 degrees, usually begins March 5 or 6. Origin of the name and start times for 2025 to 2030.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of science Fu Xi, King Wen, the Duke of Zhou and Confucius are all credited with the I Ching, but excavated manuscripts point to a late Western Zhou compilation.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Learn about Kế Đô star, one of the three malefic stars in the Nine Luminaries, its influence, remedies and folk beliefs.
Updated 22 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 22 (Bi, Mountain over Fire) in the I Ching covers adornment and refinement, plus how to apply its lessons in life, work and relationships.
Updated 18 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief When something goes missing, many Vietnamese families pray to Ông Địa, the Earth God, promising an offering if it turns up. Search first, then try the ritual.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Asking for calligraphy at the Temple of Literature is a beautiful Vietnamese Tet custom, showing respect for knowledge and sending new year wishes.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Tây Nguyên culture centres on the gong space, the rông house and the matrilineal system. The article analyses their origins and how they are changing today.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Vạn Thắng agarwood carving in Vạn Ninh, Khánh Hòa is a family trade over 100 years old, with 400 households and 700 workers, now eyed for community tourism.
Updated 20 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching The Tử Tôn line is the line generated by the palace element, symbolizing children, students, subordinates, and livestock.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief La Hầu and Kế Đô in Cửu Diệu are the Moon's orbital nodes, the North and South Nodes, which Indian, Vietnamese and Western traditions read differently.
Updated 26 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Heavenly Fire (Thiên Thượng Hỏa) is the nay am for Mậu Ngọ and Kỷ Mùi years, tied to the Fire element and linked with Wood and Earth in Five Elements.
Updated 17 Jun 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hỏa Thủy Vị Tế is hexagram 64, the last of the I Ching, its six lines out of position yet paired. Its texts show why it ends on 'not yet complete'.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative days Capital Liberation Day on 10 October 1954 saw Vietnamese forces take over Hanoi from French troops under the Geneva Accords.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Phủ Dầy Festival in Nam Định, held in the third lunar month, honors Saint Mother Liễu Hạnh with Chau Van singing and Hau Dong mediumship.
Updated 20 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
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