A Treasury of Vietnamese Proverbs, Volume 1, Part 1

A Treasury of Vietnamese Proverbs (Nguyễn Xuân Kính, ed., Culture-Information Publishing House) offers a collection and systematization of 16,098 proverbs of the Viet people. The proverbs are drawn from many sources, including published collections, fieldwork materials, and older texts. This first part begins with a list of abbreviations and symbols. It explains how sources, variants, and presentation conventions are marked, so readers can look up and cross-check entries accurately. The main body arranges the proverbs in Vietnamese alphabetical order, and this part covers entries from A to C.