Explore Vietnamese Folk Knowledge

Explore folk narratives from many ethnic groups, including the Kinh, Chăm, Cơ Ho, Mạ, Mơ Nông and Ba Na.

This collection preserves Vietnamese folk knowledge, experience and expression through proverbs, folk verses and folk songs. Highlights include works by Nguyễn Xuân Kính, Vũ Ngọc Phan, Nguyễn Văn Ngọc (Ôn Như) and Việt Chương, alongside valuable materials on parallel sentences and ả đào singing.

Look up Vietnamese folktales by title or by the name of a variant. The material comes from a digitized edition of the work of the researcher Nguyễn Đổng Chi (2000).

Explore a digitized anthology of 58 Chăm folktales collected by the Ninh Thuận Center for Chăm Cultural Studies.

Look up proverbs (still being updated) from the work of the Institute of Folk Culture Studies, edited by Nguyễn Xuân Kính (2002), with their sources, variants and printed page images for comparison.

Look up Vietnamese idioms, proverbs and folk verses and learn their meanings through a digitized edition of the work collected and edited by the scholar Việt Chương (2004), with the original scanned pages for comparison.

Learn folk verses through a fill-in-the-blank game, with explanations and detailed commentary.