Literature of ethnic minorities in Vietnam is an extremely rich. This seri is a collection which introduces only a smaill part of that treasure. The collection's contents are arranged by literary genres, starting from proverbs to poetry, narrative poetry, ancient tales and finally the new types of proses such as short stories, dramas. Each literary genre afterward is divided into compositions of ethnic groups and arranged in geographical order (Northern, Northwest, Central Highlands and Southwest). Within each ethnic group, the compositions are introduced in turn following the principle of "from the past to present". The poems written by the author of an ethnic are classified into the poetry of that ethnic. Volume 1 of the series focuses on introducing the literary compositions of the ethnic minorities in the following major genres: proverbs and poetry.