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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 (15[1])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” (-5[1])and horses that “whinny whinny.” (10[1])For 10 points, a thatched cottage in Chengdu is a museum in honor of what Táng (-5[1])dynasty poet of “Song of the Wagons,” who was a younger contemporary of Bái? ■END■ (10[1])

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