Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk divinationDrawing fortune sticks at the temple at the start of the year: offerings, ritual steps, cultural meaning, and notes for a respectful visit.
Updated 4 Sept 2026Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsOk Om Bok is the Khmer moon worship festival in Southern Vietnam, with home and pagoda rituals and the Ghe Ngo boat race in Tra Vinh.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Tria Lua seed planting festival of the Bru-Van Kieu people in Quang Binh thanks the rice god and prays for a bountiful harvest before the planting season.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesThe Si La people in Lai Châu celebrate Tet early, timing it to the harvest and peach blossoms, with black pig rituals and double chung cakes.
Updated 6 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesTet Doi is a festival of the Muong people in Thu Cuc commune, Phu Tho, to invite the 'rice maidens' back to the village.
Updated 9 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsSpring festivals after Tết: ném còn, đẩy gậy and swings among the peoples of Lai Châu, and the pháo đất game of Hải Dương, with rules and meaning.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsCau Ngu festival honors the Whale God in central Vietnam, with fishermen praying for safe seas and good catches through rituals that bind the community.
Updated 10 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority beliefThe Tày of Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn and Tuyên Quang keep Then singing, the tính lute, and the Lồng Tồng festival, a heritage UNESCO inscribed in 2019.
Updated 19 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › PsychologyThe illusion of control explains why choosing your own lottery numbers or casting your own hexagram makes a random result feel more trustworthy.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal ritesA guide to the Thang Long Tu Tran spring pilgrimage: the order of the four temples, what to pray at each, and mistakes first-timers often make.
Updated 22 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk beliefVietnam's 2016 Law on Belief and Religion separates protected belief from banned superstition, with fines and criminal penalties.
Updated 13 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsThe Khai Ha festival is the largest folk festival of the Muong people in Hoa Binh, held in the first lunar month to pray for good harvests.
Updated 19 Jul 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnamese commemorative daysNational Resistance Day, December 19, 1946, marks President Ho Chi Minh's Call for National Resistance against French colonial invasion.
Updated 25 Sept 2026Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivalsKin Pang Then is the early-spring rite of the White Thái, led by Then masters to thank the spirits and their disciples; it is held in Mường Lay, Điện Biên.
Updated 12 Oct 2026Culture and belief