Description acceptable. A verse written with a planchette suggests that this object is lying under an “old pine” after its disappearance causes its owner to lose his wits. A man on a boat realizes the significance of this object after having a vision of his son in a crimson robe, walking barefoot in the snow and singing about Greensickness Peak. In the first chapter, a priest and a monk carry this object to the fairy Disenchantment’s palace in the Land of Illusion through an arch inscribed with the words “Truth becomes fiction when the fiction’s true.” After a goddess neglects to use it to repair the sky, this object and its beloved Crimson Pearl Flower are born into the human world, where it shows up in a newborn boy’s mouth. For 10 points, Jiǎ Bǎoyù is an incarnation of what object that alternately titles Cáo Xuěqín’s (“tsao shway-cheen’s”) Dream of the Red Chamber? ■END■
ANSWER: stone [or jade; or shítou; or yù; or descriptions of the magic stone that is born as Jiǎ Bǎoyù, Jiǎ Bǎoyù’s piece of jade, or the stone from Story of the Stone, Dream of the Red Chamber, Shítou Jì, or Hónglóu Mèng; accept rock, gem, jewel, or equivalents of any; accept Jiǎ Bǎoyu until read; prompt on Jiǎ until read]
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