Year-end dates for the gathering, altar cleaning, debt repayment and New Year opening: lunar calendar principles and flexible use without superstition.
Two 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.
Lunar 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.
First-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.
Online 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
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Đại Hàn is the last of the 24 solar terms, at solar longitude 300 degrees and lasting about 15 days. Here its calculation, customs, and meaning are explained.
The twelve trực, from Kiến and Trừ to Khai and Bế, form a twelve-day cycle for judging each day, rooted in old calendars and the Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư.
No birth month is best for everyone: Bát Tự reads the month by solar terms, Tử Vi by lunar months, and folk sayings on good birth months lack a firm basis.
The Thần Tài prayer in Vietnamese folk tradition: origins, meaning, offerings, how to worship, and the full prayer, the first of the month and the full moon.
Apartment and rented-home nhập trạch rites still announce the move to ancestors and thổ công but skip động thổ and structural changes, with simpler offerings.