You see Yuanbao not only at any draft bank in Pingyao, but also in many Chinese traditional folkloric articles.
Others have made extensive folkloric and metaphoric use of animals, with the cast of characters tuned to suit local reality and pedagogical need.
The vampires most people are familiar with are revenants -- a folkloric term meaning human corpses that are said to return from the grave to harm the living.
"Spring Snow" is filled with elegant rhyme, rich and varied skills in the folkloric, which is popular in Chinese traditional music.
The story in Exodus has high drama, and lots of folkloric elements including this contest between Moses and Aaron on the one hand and the magicians of Egypt on the other hand.
T here are films as lovely, but none lovelier than "Cinema Paradiso," a folkloric salute to the medium itself, flickering with yesterday's innocence and lingering on the mind like bubbles in wine.
