A proverb is a simple and insightful, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or story. Many of these stories have been forgotten and the history of the stories is not clear for the people; however, they use those proverbs in their daily conversations.

All languages have many proverbs. The amount of proverbs depends on the history of the nations of that country and Persian language has a lot of proverbs. This series reviews Iranian old proverbs and turns it into picture and color. Each episode expresses a story and in the heart of the episode, a suitable proverb is mentioned that is the main goal of the series.

Proverb-1 is an animation series that produced in 150 episodes. Hoopoes as a narrator of story and his curious assistant Waxwing are telling the proverbs. Hoopoes and Waxwing are the most important characters of the series. Another point that increases the credit of the series is to play Iranian traditional music. Animated space is based on Iranian miniature paintings which helps the originality.