Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendarThe Hour of the Rat runs from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. A table of all 12 watch-hours in clock time, plus the two ways of setting the day boundary at midnight.
Updated 15 Oct 2026Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendarTwo calendars can give different lunar dates for the same solar day because they use different legal time zones, such as Vietnam at UTC+7 and China at UTC+8.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selectionXem ngày tốt xấu hôm nay theo lịch âm dựa trên can chi, trực, sao và giờ hoàng đạo. Bài giải thích nguyên lý, cách tra và giới hạn của việc chọn ngày.
Updated 2 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendarLunar to solar conversion uses no fixed addition table. It relies on the new moon point, major solar terms and legal time zones, so it differs year by year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesFirst-day Tet travel for 2027: how to choose the hour and direction, prepare offerings, and follow the route, plus why sources disagree on the calculations.
Updated 21 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I ChingMai Hoa Dịch Số casts a hexagram from the lunar year, month, day, and hour: divide by 8 for the trigrams and by 6 for the moving line.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendarThe Vietnamese lunar calendar is actually a lunisolar calendar combining the moon's phases and Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendarHow a lunar leap month is determined, why leap years exist, and why one lunar day in a leap year corresponds to two solar days.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyBorn in a leap month or in the hour of Tý: which month and day does a Tử Vi chart use? What each book says, and the convention Nhật Nguyệt follows.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsVietnamese Lunar New Year customs: the Kitchen Gods send-off, New Year's Eve rites, first-footing, and lucky money, with the meaning behind each.
Updated 5 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendarLunar calendar 2027: year of Đinh Mùi, Tết on Saturday 6 February 2027, no leap month. Key dates, solar terms, and how to look up dates and convert Can Chi.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsTết Đoan Ngọ falls at noon on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, when folk belief says yang energy peaks. The bug-killing custom and ancestor worship.
Updated 15 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Philosophy of scienceLunar dates, leap months and solar terms are verifiable astronomy, while auspicious days and lucky stars are a later day-selection layer.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsThe ông Công ông Táo ceremony on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month sends the three Kitchen Gods to heaven to report on the family's deeds to the Jade Emperor.
Updated 17 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipRằm tháng 7 prayers include three texts for deities, ancestors, and wandering souls, with ritual order, offerings, and how to recite them.
Updated 6 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional foodThe 15th day of the 7th lunar month has three offering trays: a vegetarian tray for Buddha, a full tray for ancestors, and one for wandering souls.
Updated 7 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThe 10th day of the first lunar month is when many Vietnamese, especially in the South, worship the God of Wealth to pray for a good year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsNorthern Vietnamese Tet worship runs from seeing off the Kitchen Gods on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month to welcoming ancestors and the vang ma burning rite.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesHow to prepare the offering tray and perform the Kitchen Gods' ritual on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, following regional customs.
Updated 8 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsFirst-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 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › BuddhismThe 19th of the 2nd, 6th and 9th lunar months mark the three Quan The Am festival days, symbolic Mahayana commemorations.
Updated 27 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiBaZi's Four Pillars from birth date and time: the year pillar turns at Lap Xuan, the month at solar terms, the day runs the 60-cycle.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date selectionAuspicious and inauspicious days classify a whole day by the twelve deities, while auspicious hours classify each two-hour block by that same set.
Updated 14 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipRằm tháng 7 is when families make offerings to the Buddha, deities, ancestors and wandering souls, with guidance on timing, the tray and what to avoid.
Updated 9 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date and hour selectionYear-end dates for the gathering, altar cleaning, debt repayment and New Year opening: lunar calendar principles and flexible use without superstition.
Updated 16 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyDiscover in detail how to cast a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart from birth time and year to star placement, along with the profound meaning of the 12 palaces.
Updated 12 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboosVietnamese folk taboos for opening a business include choosing auspicious dates, avoiding the ghost month and holding opening rituals.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk traditional practicesHow to choose auspicious dates and times for weddings and groundbreaking in Vietnamese folk belief, with lunar calendar tips and simple rituals.
Updated 8 Jul 2026Traditional systems
Dictionary › Choosing dates and hoursGiờ hoàng đạo are six two-hour slots a day, based on the twelve Earthly Branches and seen in folk practice as favorable for starting important work.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Dictionary › Tử Vi (Zi Wei Dou Shu)Cung Thân is a special palace in Vietnamese Tử Vi astrology, placed by birth month and hour rather than fixed, reflecting inner tendencies and later life.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › RegionsNorthern and Central Vietnam stress ancestral offerings and the pest-killing ritual on Doan Ngo, while the South keeps things simpler.
Updated 10 Aug 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsThe rite on the afternoon of the 30th of Tet invites ancestors home for the New Year. North, Central and South differ mainly in the feast and the fruit tray.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › BaZiOnline Bát Tự charts build fast, but accuracy hinges on birth hour data, time zone, and solar terms. Know when to trust them and when a reader must verify.
Updated 4 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk taboosVietnamese folk taboos for groundbreaking, construction and housewarming cover dates, directions and rituals, rooted in yin-yang and five elements.
Updated 16 Jun 2026Culture and belief
Dictionary › Bát Tự (Four Pillars)BaZi, or Four Pillars, is a traditional destiny analysis system built on the birth year, month, day, and hour, each with a Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologySao chiếu mệnh 2027 uses the Cửu Diệu system by lunar age. It covers the nine stars, how to look them up, their effects.
Updated 4 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › Zi Wei Dou ShuGiáp cung in Tử Vi: why Kình Đà always flank Lộc Tồn, when Tả Hữu and Xương Khúc can flank Mệnh, and how Tử Vi Đẩu Số toàn thư ranks each case.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsCúng 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.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customsBurning votive paper to see off ancestors after Tet usually falls between the 3rd and 10th of the first lunar month, most often the 3rd. What to prepare.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesA step-by-step guide to preparing offerings and arranging the Year-End Tat Nien tray per Vietnamese customs, with the prayer and key notes.
Updated 7 Aug 2026Culture and belief