Knowledge › Eastern › Feng shuiIn Ngũ Quyết Loan Đầu feng shui, an acupoint is where earth energy veins converge. See the operating principles, key point types, and identification methods.
Updated 14 Aug 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › NumerologyExplore the meaning of Life Path number 2 in Eastern numerology: personality, mission, love, career, and advice to maximize the potential of this number.
Updated 14 Jun 2026Modern system
Dictionary › NumerologySố Sứ Mệnh is a numerology figure calculated from a person's full birth name, reflecting innate potential, talents, and mode of expression.
Updated 12 Sept 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrologyExplore the origins, characteristics, and meanings of the Kiep Sat star in Zi Wei Dou Shu, its interactions with other stars, and its impact on human destiny.
Updated 2 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Western › Philosophy of scienceBefore a claim, split it into statement, reason, and evidence, then ask five questions. Common errors include confirmation bias and sunk cost.
Updated 13 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendarVietnamese and Chinese Tet differ because the new moon is calculated in different time zones and leap months follow different rules.
Updated 16 Oct 2026Calendar and astronomy
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 › 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 › 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 › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsSene Dolta, also called Sen Don Ta or Pchum Ben, is the Southern Khmer ancestor-repaying festival. Learn its timing, temple and home rituals, and meaning.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsKathina, the Khmer Theravada robe offering after the three-month rain retreat, runs from the 16th of the ninth lunar month to the full moon of the tenth.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipThe mùng 1 ancestor prayer text has five parts, with variants in wording and in the order of honoring deities versus ancestors.
Updated 4 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › TarotExplore the symbolism, historical origins, and in-depth meaning of the Ace of Wands in Tarot, from cultural, psychological, and practical perspectives.
Updated 15 Aug 2026Modern system
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesThe Khmer (Kho Me) numbered 1,319,652 in the 2019 survey, live mainly in the Mekong Delta, speak a Mon-Khmer language, and worship Buddha and ancestors.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › VietnamNorthern Vietnam worship includes ancestor veneration, Thành hoàng, Mother Goddess and folk rites, reflecting uống nước nhớ nguồn and the wish for peace.
Updated 6 Oct 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worshipAncestor worship is a long-standing Vietnamese custom, a moral standard, and a key part of spiritual life, with altars, death anniversaries, and Tet rituals.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › RegionsMekong Delta culture grew from reclaiming southern lands and life along its rivers and canals, with floating markets and over 1,230 festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing artsVietnam's Decree 39/2024/NĐ-CP sets seven types of intangible cultural heritage for inventory, with traditional crafts fifth and folk knowledge seventh.
Updated 23 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › RegionsVietnamese worship customs vary by region and ethnicity through environment, migration, and cultural exchange, not through one practice being more correct.
Updated 6 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsTết flowers and plants: peach, apricot blossom, kumquat, chrysanthemum, marigold and gerbera. Where each comes from, how to choose it and what it means.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesChol Chnam Thmay is the Khmer New Year, held in mid-April over three days with rituals like the Maha Sangkran procession and bathing the Buddha.
Updated 5 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communitiesThe Kinh (Viet) are 86.83% of Vietnam's population and speak Vietnamese of the Viet Muong group. Their villages and ancestor worship are covered here.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsCúng cơm ba ngày Tết covers the first, second and third day rites: Nguyên đán, Chiêu điện, Tịch điện and the Tạ ceremony, with regional differences.
Updated 11 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customsTết in Huế runs from the twelfth lunar month to the seventh of the first: the Thướng tiêu rite, đạp đất, vegetarian offerings and many cakes and preserves.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefThành Hoàng is the guardian deity believed to protect each Vietnamese village, worshipped at the communal đình. Its origins, deity types and royal decrees.
Updated 3 Sept 2026Culture and belief