How Much Is a Pretty License Plate Worth: Plate Auctions and the Value of Belief in Numbers
Hồng Kông license plate auction data shows number 8 sells higher and number 4 lower. That price gap measures belief and status signaling, not luck.
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Why Prices So Often End in 8: How Sellers Use Lucky Numbers in Pricing
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.
What Is Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp? The Structure of a Kỳ Môn Chart: Earth Plate, Heaven Plate, Human Plate (Eight Gates), and Spirit Plate (Eight Spirits)
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.
What Are the Twelve Heavenly Generals and Twelve Monthly Generals of Da Liu Ren, and How Do They Differ?
Da Liu Ren builds the heaven plate from twelve Monthly Generals that shift with mid-qi, then places twelve Heavenly Generals from the Nobleman.
The 4th House: Family in Astrology: Meaning and Influence
The 4th House in astrology governs family, roots and home, shaping your bond with parents and your inner sense of security.
The 5th House: Creativity & Love in the Astrological Chart, Meaning
The 5th House in astrology governs creativity, romantic love, joy and children, showing how you express yourself and enjoy life.
What offerings does a new car blessing include and what is the traditional sequence?
A new car blessing usually has flowers, fruit, roast pork or chicken or a vegetarian tray, salt, rice, wine, tea and votive paper, set before the car.
Meaning of Number 8 in Eastern Numerology
Explore the profound meaning of number 8 in Eastern numerology: symbol of prosperity, yin-yang balance, power and wisdom.
Do People Turn to Divination More When They Feel Anxious? Research on Stress, Control and Ritual
Anxiety and ritual seeking track together in observational data, but experiments that induced lost control have not replicated.
Eastern Numerology: How to Calculate and the Meaning of Numbers
Eastern numerology uses Yin-Yang and Five Elements ideas, with numbers 1 through 9 each holding an element. See how birth dates are reduced and read.
The Nine Centers on a Human Design Chart: What Defined and Undefined Centers Mean
The nine Human Design centers are defined (colored) or undefined (white). Here is how to read them, plus the limits of this pseudoscientific system.
What Are the Nine Methods for Deriving the Three Transmissions in Lục Nhâm?
Lục Nhâm picks the Three Transmissions with nine methods in priority order: tặc khắc, tỷ dụng, thiệp hại, dao khắc, mão tinh, biệt trách and more.
Comparing Tet Feast Trays Across Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam
Tet feast trays in Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam differ in ingredients and meaning, from banh chung in the North to banh tet in the South.
What Are the Nine Methods for Deriving the Three Transmissions in Lục Nhâm?
Lục Nhâm derives its Three Transmissions through nine gates: tặc khắc, tỷ dụng, thiệp hại, dao khắc, mão tinh, biệt trách, bát chuyên, phục ngâm, phản ngâm.
How Does Lunar New Year for the Ethnic Chinese in Chợ Lớn Differ from Vietnamese Tet?
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.
On a Cast Qi Men chart, which configuration patterns are used to read fortune and misfortune?
A cast Qi Men chart reads fortune and misfortune through four pattern groups, including Ten Stems mutual clash and Tam Tra with Cuu Don.
How to Determine Yang Dun or Yin Dun, the Ju Number, and Zhi Fu and Zhi Shi in Qi Men Dun Jia
Solar terms set Yang Dun or Yin Dun, and the fu tou day sets the yuan. This guide covers ju numbers, super spirit and qi continuation, Zhi Fu and Zhi Shi.
Traditional Ancestral Worship Trays by Region
Vietnamese ancestral worship trays reflect regional character: the North favors formality, the Central region is lavish, and the South is simple yet refined.
Cúng Đất in Huế: Which Months, What the Three Offering Trays Hold and Why the Land Deity Is Thanked
Cúng đất in Huế is held in the second and eighth lunar months, with three offering trays to thank the land deity and remember the former Chăm owners.
Tam Kỳ and Lục Nghi in Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp: Why Are Ất, Bính, Đinh Called Tam Kỳ and Under Which Lục Nghi Do the Six Giáp Hide?
In Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp, Tam Kỳ are Ất, Bính, Đinh, while Lục Nghi are Mậu, Kỷ, Canh, Tân, Nhâm, Quý. Each of the six Giáp hides under one Lục Nghi stem.
How to Arrange the Full Moon of the First Lunar Month Offering Tray for the Family: What to Offer, How Many Trays, How to Place Them
How to set out Ram thang Gieng (first full moon) offering trays at home: how many trays, vegetarian or savory dishes, order of offering, layout and taboos.
How to perform a proper opening ceremony offering for shops and companies
A step-by-step guide to shop and company opening ceremony offerings, from preparing the tray to the ritual sequence, with safety notes.
How to Prepare the Full-Month and First-Birthday Offering Trays for Babies
A step-by-step guide to preparing offerings and arranging full-month and first-birthday trays for your baby, plus the prayer and regional notes.
Housewarming Ritual (Nhập Trạch) for a New Home: Offerings and Step-by-Step Procedure
A guide to the Vietnamese housewarming ritual (nhập trạch): the offerings and each step in order, from the auspicious date to moving in.
Giap Mountain Direction in the 24 Mountain Directions of Feng Shui: Meaning and Interpretation
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.
Why Zi Wei Dou Shu Readings Sometimes Do Not Match Real Life
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.
Cửu Tinh and Bát Thần in Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp: the nine stars, the eight spirits, and where schools use different names
Cửu Tinh in Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp are nine stars from Thiên Bồng to Thiên Anh, each tied to a palace and element, while Bát Thần are eight spirits.
Lục Nhâm Khóa Thể: What Are Nguyên Thủ, Trùng Thẩm, Tri Nhất and Thiệp Hại?
Per Lục Nhâm đại toàn: Nguyên Thủ has one khóa with upper overcoming lower, Trùng Thẩm one with lower overcoming upper; Tri Nhất and Thiệp Hại have several.
Lục Nhâm Course Types: What Are Nguyên Thủ, Trùng Thẩm, Tri Nhất, and Thiệp Hại, and How Is a Lục Nhâm Divination Named?
A Lục Nhâm course type names a chart by the overcoming relations among its four courses. The four base types are Nguyên Thủ, Trùng Thẩm, Tri Nhất, Thiệp Hại.
How to Arrange the Mid-Autumn Festival Offering Tray
A detailed step-by-step guide on preparing offerings and arranging the Mid-Autumn Festival tray according to Vietnamese traditions.
The Cúng Mụ Rite and the Belief in the 12 Midwife Goddesses
Explore the origin and role of the 12 Bà Mụ in Vietnamese folk belief, female deities believed to shape a newborn's body and bestow blessings.
Seeing Off the Ancestors After Tet in Three Regions: How Do Hóa Vàng, Tiễn Ông Bà, and Cúng Tất Differ?
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.
What Dishes Are on a Northern Vietnamese Death Anniversary Offering Tray and How Is It Arranged?
A Northern Vietnamese gio tray usually features boiled chicken, sticky rice, bamboo shoot soup, spring rolls, and a bowl of rice with a boiled egg.
Meanings of Dishes in Traditional Vietnamese Wedding Feasts
Each dish at a Vietnamese wedding feast carries symbolic meaning, from red sticky rice to boiled chicken, pork rolls and braised pork.
Choosing an opening day for the Đinh Mùi 2027 Lunar New Year: where the custom comes from and what people weigh up
Where the custom of a Lunar New Year opening day comes from, and what people weigh up when picking a date and preparing offerings.
Tam Thức and Thái Ất in Vietnam, and the story of Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm studying the Thái Ất thần kinh: what is historical record and what is legend?
Tam Thức covers Thái Ất, Lục Nhâm and Kỳ Môn. This piece traces how it reached Vietnam and asks what is history and what is legend around Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.
Tết Rites in Southern Vietnam: Welcoming the Ancestors, the Giao Thừa Offering, Tết Nhà on the Third and the Farewell
Tet rites in southern Vietnam: welcoming the ancestors on the 30th, giao thừa offerings outdoors and indoors, Tết nhà on the third, farewell on the fourth.
Does the year-end offering include burning votive paper, and should it be indoors or outdoors?
Many families burn a little votive paper after the year-end offering; the hóa vàng send-off comes on Tet days 3 to 7. The tray can go indoors or outdoors.
Year-End Offering in Three Regions: Dates, Offering Trays and Meaning
Cúng tất niên is the year-end offering that thanks the ancestors and sees off the old year: the day, the trays of three regions, the prayer and its meaning.
Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo
Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Vietjet Air, Chairwoman of Sovico Group