Question
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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 12.50 | 96% | 25% | 4% |
Data
| Cornell B | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago C | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago D | McGill | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Arizona State | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Duke | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | Florida | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley A | Georgia Tech | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Vanderbilt | Harvard | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Indiana | Chicago A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Truman State | Kentucky | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan | Illinois | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Penn | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Texas | Cornell A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |