Zhongguo yanyu ziliao

Zhongguo yanyu ziliao (simplified Chinese: 中国谚语资料; traditional Chinese: 中國諺語資料; Collection of Chinese Proverbs or Collection of Chinese Sayings) is a reference work on proverbs compiled by the Folklore Group of the 1955 class of the Literature Department of the Lanzhou Art College (兰州艺术学院). The book was first published in 1961 by the Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.^[1] The complete edition comprises three volumes. The work contains a large number of folk wisdom and proverbs or sayings (yanyu, simplified Chinese: 谚语; traditional Chinese: 諺語; “proverb; saying; adage; saw^[2]”) and represents an important reference source for the study of traditional Chinese folk culture.

The work is, for example, referenced by the Hanyu da zidian (HYDZD), although it is not listed in its bibliography.^[3]