The Hà Nhì custom of reading pig liver to predict fortune at the beginning of the year
The Hà Nhì read pig liver at the start of the year to predict fortune, harvest and health, a spiritual custom tied to farming life.
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New Rice Festival (Khụ Sự Chà): The Hà Nhì People's Thanksgiving to Ancestors
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.
The Unique Early Tet Custom of the Si La People
The Si La people in Lai Châu celebrate Tet early, timing it to the harvest and peach blossoms, with black pig rituals and double chung cakes.
What is Thập Thần?
Thập Thần are ten relationships of generation and control between the Day Master and the other stems and branches in a Four Pillars chart.
How early 20th century Vietnamese consulted fortune tellers, picked auspicious days, and practiced mediumship: rereading Phan Kế Bính, Diguet, and Nguyễn Văn Huyên
Three early 20th century recorders found fortune telling, day selection and mediumship widespread in northern Vietnam, each seeing them differently.
Reading Eyebrows in Chinese Physiognomy
Explore the meaning of eyebrows in Eastern physiognomy: shape, length, color, and position reflect personality, destiny, and health.
How do old texts describe the Wood-type face and build in physiognomy?
Wood physiognomy: a tall, lean frame with fine bones and a clear, carrying voice. How three old texts each describe the Wood type, and where they differ.
Methods of Casting an I Ching Hexagram: Yarrow Stalks, Three Coins, Number-Based and Time-Based Casting, and Why Each Method Gives Different Moving-Line Probabilities
Four ways to cast an I Ching hexagram, yarrow stalks, three coins, number-based and time-based, and why each gives different moving-line odds.
What is Bệnh Dược?
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.
Hidden Spirit in Lục Hào: When the Useful Spirit Does Not Appear, What Tang San Buo Dich Says About Finding and Judging It
When a Lục Hào hexagram lacks the needed relative, Tang San Buo Dich chapter 28 shows how to find the hidden spirit and judge when it is useful.
Who Was Shen Zhureng and What Did the Shen School of Huyền Không Studies Make Public?
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.
Beyond Wang Shan Wang Xiang and Shang Shan Xia Shui: Fu Yin, Fan Yin, He Shi, Lian Zhu San Ban Gua and Qi Xing Da Jie in the Xuan Kong Flying Star Chart
Fu Yin, Fan Yin, He Shi, Lian Zhu San Ban Gua and Qi Xing Da Jie: how each forms on the Xuan Kong Flying Star chart and why it is auspicious or inauspicious.