Rằm 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.
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.
By folk custom, the cô hồn tray is set in the yard or before the gate, not indoors, and many homes turn it outward. Timing, regional trays, and taboos.
A guide to preparing New Year's Eve offerings, arranging the outdoor and indoor trays by Vietnamese custom, with safety notes and regional differences.
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.
Giỗ thường (cát kỵ) yearly rites need no full feast like giỗ đầu or giỗ hết. Core offerings: hương đèn, trầu cau, rượu trà, a bowl of upside-down rice.
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.
Tết Nguyên Tiêu, the first full moon of the lunar year, is greatly valued in Vietnamese culture. See why it matters and what to prepare for the offering tray.
Death anniversary rituals in Vietnamese culture remember ancestors and bring families together. Organization should suit each family, staying simple and warm.
Explore the compatibility between Fire element signs (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius) in astrology: strengths, challenges, and how to harmonize in love and work.
Earth and Air element compatibility in astrology: how Earth's stability pairs with Air's flexibility, plus the strengths and challenges in love and work.
Year-end tạ đất rites are usually held outdoors in the yard, indoors only in cramped homes; offerings vary by region, with no fixed number of chè bowls.
Southern bánh tét is a signature Tet offering that symbolizes prosperity and family reunion. See its origins, meaning and traditional wrapping methods.
Vesak marks the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha, and its date differs between Theravada and Mahayana traditions. The bathing ritual symbolizes inner purification.
Vietnamese ancestral worship trays reflect regional character: the North favors formality, the Central region is lavish, and the South is simple yet refined.
Huyền Quang (Lý Đạo Tái), third patriarch of the Trúc Lâm Zen school after Trần Nhân Tông and Pháp Loa, is profiled via his life, deeds and surviving poetry.
The Mường New Rice Festival in Hương Cần Commune, Phú Thọ falls on the 10th day of the 10th lunar month, when the Lang makes the offering at Khoang Đình.
Water element traits in astrology: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are sensitive, empathetic and intuitive, yet can be vulnerable and overwhelmed by emotion.
Explore the Fire element in astrology: personality traits of Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, strengths, weaknesses, and how they interact with other elements.
Learn what relief stars and fate-mitigating stars are in Vietnamese astrology, their origins, and their real limits from Buddhist and cultural perspectives.
Buddhist meditation covers both meditative concentration and the Zen school, arriving in Vietnam from the early Common Era and thriving under the Lý and Trần.