Attendees of the title events do this action and have sex with “insemination partners” in the short story “Life Ceremony.” After murdering a vengeful elderly couple in a mountain lodge, Natsuki, her husband, and her cousin Yuu do this action to each other at the end of the novel Earthlings. (15[1])In a short story (15[1])within a novel, (15[1])the presence of a small red demon worries a father as he waits for his son to be appraised for this activity. A novel switches between a man’s (*) investigation of this activity (10[1])and letters between the aspiring writer Li Yidou and the novel’s author. Ding Gou’er (10[1])investigates (10[1])reports of this crime in the province of (10[1])Liquorland in the novel The Republic of (10[1])Wine. (10[2])For 10 points, name this crime which the narrator hallucinates reading in a command (10[1])written between the lines of Confucian (10[1])texts in Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman.” ■END■