Chinese classics - 2024 ARGOS @ McMaster

Question

In Wang Yi’s edition, an extra character appended to the title of Qu Yuan’s “Lí Sāo” elevates it to the status of this type of work, which Liu Xie equated to “the everlasting dao.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this kind of canonical work. A Neo-Confucian canon consists of “Four Books” and five of these works.

ANSWER: Chinese classics [or jing; accept wujing; accept Four Books and Five Classics]

[10h] Lu Ji describes how the writer “learns to recite the classics” and draw on past masterpieces in a “Poetic Exposition on Literature” in this Chinese form. This form combines poetic and prose qualities, motivating English translations such as “rhapsody” or “rhyme-prose.”

ANSWER: fù (“foo”) [accept Wen fu]

[10m] “Sacred words” from the Classics are quoted in the exordium of compositions in this form, which were based on a pre-selected Classic quotation and became the standardized written answer format for the Ming imperial exams.

ANSWER: eight-legged essays [or baguwen; or eight-bone essay; or babiwen or zhiyi or shiyi or shiwen or juye; prompt on essays]

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	18.33	50%	100%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	6	6.67	33%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	26.67	100%	100%	67%
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	N	3	10.00	33%	33%	33%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	N	3	20.00	67%	100%	33%

Data


Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	0	0	0
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	0	0	0
Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	10	10	20
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	10	10	20
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	10	10
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	10	10	20
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	10	10
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	10	0	10
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	0	0
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	10	0	10
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	0	0	0
as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	0	0	0