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This poet wrote a 100-rhyming-couplet poem themed on an “Autumn Day” whose form was co-opted by a later poet after the Crow Terrace Poetry Trial. The end of one poem by this author describes how his white hair has been scratched so much that it can no longer hold a hairpin. One of this author’s poems ends by describing the rain that falls from a dark heaven with a screeching sound. This master of the eight-line (*) lüshi (“LOO-shih”) style wrote one poem in that style detailing his thoughts while “Gazing at Spring.” One poem by this “Poet-Sage” describes the title conveyances that “rumble (10[1])rumble” (10[1])and horses that “whinny whinny.” (10[1])For 10 points, a thatched cottage in Chengdu is a museum in honor of what Táng dynasty poet of “Song of the Wagons,” who was a younger contemporary of Bái? ■END■

ANSWER: Fǔ [or Tu Fu; or Dou Fu]
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Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina BJames Madison A10110
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