Question
The modern term for these periods combines a word for ritual court audiences with one for an era’s temporal span. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these periods theorized to rise and fall in a “cycle” that recognized the succession of five of them during the era of “ten kingdoms.” 24 imperial histories of these unified periods begin with Records of the Grand Historian.
ANSWER: Chinese dynasties [or dynasty; or cháodài, tiāncháo, běncháo, guócháo, huángcháo, or wángcháo; accept Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms or Wǔdài Shíguó; accept dynastic cycle or cháodài xúnhuán; prompt on imperial China or equivalents]
[10m] The Sòng court inherited numerous ceremonies from the Five Dynasties, such as performing this act daily at the vacant throne. Umayyad envoys refused to perform this act for Xuánzōng (“shwen-dzong”) of Táng.
ANSWER: kowtow [or word forms of kowtowing; or kòutóu, kētóu, quỳ lạy, khấu đầu, godu, kōtō, kaitō, nukazuku, nukatsuku, or nukadzuku, prompt on prostration, bowing, kneeling, homage, tapping one’s head against the ground, or equivalents of any]
[10h] This 6th-century dynasty originated ethnographic portraits of foreign tributaries. Zhū Wēn (“joo-wun”) began the Five Dynasties with a “later” version of this dynasty, whose Buddhist founder Wǔ (“woo”) commissioned the Thousand Character Classic.
ANSWER: Liáng dynasty [or Liáng Cháo, Southern Liáng, Nán Liáng, or Xiāo Liáng; accept Later Liáng or Hòu Liáng or Zhū Liáng; accept Wǔ of Liáng or Liáng Wǔdì] (The ethnographic envoy portraits are called Zhígòng tú, translated as Portraits of Periodical Offering or Illustrations of Tributaries.)
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 21 | 16.19 | 86% | 67% | 10% |
Data
| Waterloo | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont Colleges | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill | Columbia A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | North Carolina B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Duke | Chicago B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech | Arizona State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | Indiana | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida | Iowa State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Minnesota A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Truman State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina | Texas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Berkeley A | Toronto B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia | Kentucky | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| WUSTL A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Yale A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Stanford | Yale B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |