Practitioners describe căn đồng as a spirit root that forces the trình đồng rite, while anthropologists read it as rebuilding self and social position.
Anthropology finds modernisation does not erase spirit belief in Vietnam. Temples and festivals grew busier after Đổi Mới for several overlapping reasons.
Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63) is the only hexagram with all six lines in correct position and paired. It teaches small success and a good start but chaotic end.
Physiognomy is the traditional Eastern practice of observing facial features, hands, and body to infer personality and destiny, serving as a reference.
Lộc Tồn is the Yin Earth wealth star heading the 12-star Lộc Tồn cycle, always flanked by Kình Dương and Đà La. Here is how it is placed by birth stem.
A clear reference guide to all eight trigrams of the I Ching: their meaning, element, family member, and direction according to the Later Heaven arrangement.
Anthropologists describe feng shui as a symbolic system for reading landscapes and a social tool within lineages. In the West, it became a home decor product.
Hoa Cái is the Mộ character of the tam hợp, always on Thìn Tuất Sửu Mùi. This analysis covers its placement and its links to art, religion and scholarship.
Many people know a taboo has no scientific basis yet still follow it. Psychology calls this acquiescence, a mechanism that reconciles intuition and reason.
Water shape face reading traits include a full soft body, bright skin and eyes, a gentle flexible nature, and a talent for business, with notes on health.
Explore the meaning of ear features in Eastern physiognomy: shape, position, helix, ear canal... what do they reveal about personality, destiny, and health?
The forehead in Chinese physiognomy is the palace of Fortune and Wisdom, reflecting youth, intellect and parents. Its shapes and wrinkles carry meaning.
Explore the meaning of the chin in Eastern physiognomy: typical chin shapes, their links to personality, destiny, and health, plus a scientific perspective.
Explore the physiognomic meanings of high, low, full, or bony cheekbones in Eastern face reading, along with a critical perspective from modern science.
Nguyễn Du used Eastern physiognomy to portray personality, inner life and fate in The Tale of Kieu, revealing how traditional culture shaped his craft.
Thiên Quan and Thiên Phúc are Earth auxiliary stars placed by the birth year's heavenly stem, not the branch or hour, with tables and points of disagreement.
Professor, doctor of surgery, the first person to successfully research the planned liver resection method, also called the dry liver resection method or the Tôn Thất Tùng method
456 prayers, orations, petitions and repentance verses in use, in print and online in Vietnam, one text per row with its rite type, part of the rite, region, tradition, text family, variants and fill-in slots. The wording is kept in Vietnamese as the source gives it; 348 texts carry the name and address of the source page, 108 are collected texts whose source is not named.