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Feng shui & spirituality for homes
30 articles on home feng shui and customs for building and moving into a new home — presented as traditional beliefs for your reference, always set beside light, ventilation, safety and legal status.
- Home feng shui18 articles
- Choosing a house direction by age: calculating the Eight Mansions life-palace
- Calculating life-palace and nap-am five elements by birth year
- Apartment feng shui
- Customs & spirituality12 articles
- Choosing a date and the housewarming ceremony (nhap trach)
- Groundbreaking ceremony for building a house
- Roof-topping ceremony (pouring the roof, thuong luong)
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Home feng shui
House direction, life-palace, layout of each room, land plot, colours — following common beliefs, set beside light, ventilation, safety and price.
- Choosing a house direction by age: calculating the Eight Mansions life-palaceThe life-palace formula, the 4 favourable directions of each palace and what to do when an apartment does not suit your direction
- Calculating life-palace and nap-am five elements by birth yearHow the life-palace differs from the nap-am element — formula and an example table for birth years 1975–2000
- Apartment feng shuiMain door, corner unit, corridor, lift, view — checked against sun, wind and noise when viewing a unit
- Choosing an apartment floor to suit your elementFloors by five elements and the reality of low, middle and high floors: price, noise, lifts, evacuation
- Feng shui for townhouses and tube housesStaircase, light well, kitchen, back door — tied to the ventilation, light and safety of a ready-made house
- Living room feng shuiPlacing the sofa, TV, mirror, plants and lamps to fit the belief while staying bright, airy and easy to move around
- Bedroom feng shuiPlacing the bed, headboard, mirror, window and electronics — combined with a view on sleep and light
- Kitchen feng shuiPosition, stove direction, the water–fire belief between stove and sink, fridge — with gas safety
- Bathroom feng shuiPosition, door, ventilation — and what to do when an apartment's bathroom position cannot be changed
- Land plot shape: widening, narrowing at the back, corner plotsPlot shape by feng shui and by real criteria: legal status, planning, road setback, building density
- Homes near cemeteries, pagodas and templesThe feng shui belief, and the real effects on noise, smell, traffic and safe environmental distance
- Homes facing a T-junction, a road ending head-on, or a dead-end alleyRoad-strike by feng shui and in reality: traffic safety, noise, price, business potential
- Indoor and balcony plantsPlants commonly chosen by belief, how to care for them, and poisonous plants to avoid when there are small children or pets
- Interior colours by the five elementsA Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth palette by belief, plus colour-matching principles and real lighting
- Lucky house and floor numbers: avoiding 4, 13, 14Folk beliefs, renaming floor 13 as 12A, and the effect on price and liquidity
- Feng shui for offices, shops and shophousesDoor, cashier counter, desk, signboard — with frontage, foot traffic and parking criteria
- Does feng shui affect home prices?Brokers' views in the press on view, direction, floor 13 and dead-end alleys — advice for sellers and buyers
- Remedying feng shui without spending muchLayout, light, curtains, plants — and how to spot overpriced charm sales and fraudulent masters
Customs & spirituality
Rituals for building a home, moving into a new home and making offerings in an apartment — common practices for reference, with fire-safety notes and building rules.
- Choosing a date and the housewarming ceremony (nhap trach)Preparation, the usual order, notes for apartment living and checking the home at handover
- Groundbreaking ceremony for building a houseThe order by custom and the real procedures needed: construction permit, notice of commencement
- Roof-topping ceremony (pouring the roof, thuong luong)Meaning, common offerings, order, reference costs and construction-safety notes
- Ages for building a house: Kim Lau, Hoang Oc, Tam TaiHow they are calculated by belief, what borrowing an age means, and weighing schedule, material prices and weather
- An altar in an apartmentPosition, direction and distances by tradition, and fire-prevention notes when burning incense, plus building rules
- Kitchen God offering in an apartmentOfferings on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month, a compact way to do it in an apartment, fire safety, management rules
- Offerings on the full moon and the first of the month in an apartmentCommon offerings, a compact way to do it, cost, safe incense burning and building rules
- Year-end land thanksgiving ceremony (ta tho cong)For townhouses and houses on land: meaning, timing, offerings, cost and how to do it in an apartment
- Housewarming party and giftsTiming, whom to invite, gifts to give or avoid, cost and noise in an apartment building
- Moving taboos and the 7th lunar monthFolk beliefs and the practical view on handover schedules, cost and when to buy a home
- Ceremonies when taking over a rental, letting out or moving outCommon habits, agreeing on an altar, burning incense with the landlord and fire-prevention notes
- Buying a home that has had a misfortuneWhat to ask and how to write the contract, the effect on price and how families handle it spiritually
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