The future Yōngzhèng (“yohng-jung”) Emperor commissioned a series of 12 of these people. For 10 points each:
[10m] What term identifies a group including Diāochán (“dee-ow-chahn”) and Wáng Zhāojūn (“jow-jwin”), who were often painted on Qīng (“cheeng”) scrolls? They were also painted in the bijin-ga genre.
ANSWER: beauties [or beauty, měi, beautiful women, or equivalents; accept Four Beauties (of Ancient China), Sì dà měi nǚ, Twelve Beauties (of Jīnlíng), Twelve Golden Hairpins, or Jīnlíng shí’èr chāi; prompt on concubines, consorts, official lovers, or pínfēi by asking “known for what trait?”]
[10h] The calligrapher Zhèng Xiè (“jung shee-eh”), who satirized Qīng flogging in a paean to the beauty of the male buttocks, was one of eight artists known by this term. These artists from 18th-century Yángzhoū (“yahng-joh”) juxtaposed ugliness and elegance in their paintings.
ANSWER: eccentricity [or strangeness, oddness, bewildering, bewilderment, uncanny, uncanniness, mystifying, guài; accept oblique, slant, deviate, stray, contrary, or piān; accept Eight Eccentrics of Yángzhoū or Yángzhoū Bā Guài; reject “deviants”]
[10e] Huáng Shèn (“hwahng shun”), another of the Eight Eccentrics, painted the beauty Mágū (“mah-goo”) and a drunk man with this vocation. The ten Ox-Herding Pictures illustrate training masters of this vocation, who designed raked rock gardens in Japan.
ANSWER: Buddhist monks [or monastics; or bhikkhu or bhikṣu; or sōryo, bōsan, bōzu, or héshàng; accept saṅgha or saṃgha; prompt on Buddhists, Zen, Chán, Mahāyāna, Rinzai-shū, Línjì zōng, or equivalents; prompt on teachers, instructors, ascetics, renunciants, priests, or equivalents of any; reject “Buddhist nuns” or “bhikkhunī”]
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