PANO - A set of big-sized tear-off calendar 2017 with a full version of Truyen Kieu (Tale of Kieu) by Nguyen Du was made public on October 2 in the Book Street, Ho Chi Minh City by An Hao Limited Company.

Cover of the calendar

Truyen Kieu including 3,254 poetic lines written in the form of six-eight-word distich metre is divided into 365 passages, equivalent to 365 days of a year.

In the calendar, the verse and annotations are based on the dictionary of Truyen Kieu by scholar Dao Duy Anh.

Notes, annotations of words, historical references and classical references are compiled precisely and shortly, so that users could easily read and understand.  The product is expected to make people very interested.

The debut of such a special calendar adds a unique cultural feature to the calendar market in the coming year and helps popularize the Vietnamese renowned literary work.

Translated by Mai Huong