#but at least i dont duck whenever i walk into the bathroom to avoid the mirror in the early morning and nighttime anymore!

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going insane over these tags a reward for being alive it feels poetic and beautiful ough 🫶🫶🫶

so vietnam theres all sorts of migration from regions to regions to big cities for work n stuffs! also the dofference stemmed from there being a separation mostly due to geography and history we started off 4 thousand years ago in the north with a small chunk and teeny country and grew all the way til our current size and maybe like the french i think divided the country to rule and out government is in the north (currently) but back in the days there was two and politics and im really falling short at my own history ough i shouldve paid more attention in class 😭 but anyways the most obvious reason is that we’re a long country

^ looky long S big S very rich coasts and tourism we got a beaut piece of land

the monday thing im not so sure and i looked it up! very surprisingly this way of naming the weekdays originated from …. Portugese religion spreading people (idk the word to call but they were convincing locals to christainity i think) and like sunday is God’s day so monday is the second day translated from “segunda-feira” (means the second market time)

interesting….. i didnt know portugese peeps ever visited! :o!

yeah the stone lions are never painted (at least the ones i saw) theyre usually made of stones and maybe precious ones in prestigious buildings, offices or company’s buildings here usually uses cement ones, i read on wikipedia that theres also resin versions (like they mass produced the lions for business places to put to attract business) but ive never seend resin lions before maybe that kind’s not popular here

the lions represents yin and yang yang is the male one (with the ball) and yin is the female (with littol cub) its like balances out and its adviced mever to have like two of the same gender cuz thats breaking the equilibrium i think :D

in the past its reserved to rich peeps but now theyre mass produced to place to guard just in general big places.

the pro of fengshui are like people whove learnt lots about these things the placement of stuffs in a house, where the house is facing, where to put the bathrooms. also i think dates on when to do things, chinese culture and cultures heavily influenced by the chinese value alot on those, according to one of my teacher at school she told me that usually people before buying a new home & when theyre designing how to build it, would hire and bring along a fengshui master. and big apartments and residential areas definitely need fengshui masters to look at them before deciding the final blueprint!

ive never met a pro fengshui master tho, cuz my parents are big nerds and studied the art of fengshui themselves >:D!! especially my dad and he just kind of choose and observe stuffs idk the details but mans just got knowledge stored in his brains going brrr when they check out real estates

that just reminded me of another belief! so everyone here knows that having a mirror or any reflective surface opposite of where you sleep that could reflect you in your sleep is unlucky as hell. like youre gonna get taken over by spirits or something terrifying like that, cuz mirrors are like portals to whatever spooky place over there.

and so walking into a hotel you would just know it was built by western vietnamese investor. cuz western big boss dont care bout the mirror placements usually, and like would place a whole ass flatscreen tv at the foot of your bed, or like once the mirror was so directly under my feet and reflected my entire laying down position that my mum had to carefully tuck a bath towel over it. per my request since i felt the chills as soon as i sat on the bed noticing my own reflection ough.

HIIII. This is aurhisaurelio this is my main blog idk if ive said it. I keep forgetting to tell ppl. Dhkdbdjdjd NEWAY HIIIIII. Do you believe in lots of superstitions? Like the one with the hair and nails stuff. Here in my home we have a supersttion where u shouldnt sweep the floor at night cause it sweeps away bad luck! I follow that.

Neway its rlly fun to talk to u abt food and now this !!!! And ESPECIALLY the mythical beast thank u so much for sending that to me i saw pictures in the Google AND THEY ARE SO PRETTYYYYY!!!,

:O i thought the accounts got a similar vibes XD *puts down in my notes that this is the same person*

so we got a similar one that like the first day (or was it three days?) of lunar new year you cant sweep or its equivalent to sweeping new year’s luck out of the house :o! we do clean the house mostly at night tho XD (at least my family does)

superstitions to me are like suggestions, i believe in them just in case 👀 like if there sre no risk &/ inconvienieces to following them imma follow them to prevent whatever bad things that could maybe happen!

yo theres one tho my mum told me about when i was really young so it stuck with me, ‘do not comb your hair on the car - or any vehicles’ cuz like when you comb your hair some strands will fall out and that meant like a separation of sort and seperation and being on a vehicle could be bad omen to an accident :O! <- also important note that i strictly follow this due to going by cab lots and idk if the driver was really superstitious they could get realy mad and even drop you off in the middle of the streets :0!

one that i choose to not believe is like shaving your head = bad omen (cuz my mum told me ancient people - modernly this superstition is specifically referring to to women - only do that when something life changing/in a bad way happened to them like having a big loss usually like being widowed)

ikrrr such pretty mythical creatures, with a similar appearance, leading to my next thought the stone lions!!

i also love stone lions that guard doors and entrances to places they are so cool, literally once i saw two made of some sort of stone (im guessing maybe marble) but they were so cool to the touch i hugged one (i was but a small child at the time) they were so smoothly carved i think they belonged to a temple (hence the dedicated shaping)

my old school also got two but they were rough on the surface and i kept picturing being slammed into one (definitely would rip skin they were made of like gravel and cement poured into a mould or something so the texture was that of the road’s asphalt 😔)