Question
A divine celebration in one of these locations where a fairy refuses a request to make the earth’s flowers bloom all at once opens Li Ruzhen (“lee roo-jin”)’s novel Flowers in the Mirror. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this kind of place where three warriors swear an oath of brotherhood in the first chapter of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
ANSWER: peach garden [accept peach garden oath or Táoyuán Sān Jiéyì]
[10h] In Flowers in the Mirror, this person forces the spirits into making all flowers bloom, leading to the Fairy of a Hundred Flowers being reincarnated as punishment. Robert van Gulik cut what he deemed an irrelevant pornographic passage depicting this person with a priest, in a translation of a subordinate’s Celebrated Cases.
ANSWER: Empress Wu [or Wu Zetian; or Wu Zhao; or Wu Mei] (The book translated by van Gulik was the Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee / Dí Gōng Àn, in which Dee solves “Four Great Strange Cases of Empress Wu's Reign.”)
[10m] This character from another novel is exiled from heaven for breaking a crystal goblet during a peach banquet. This character is often depicted wearing a necklace consisting of nine of his victims’ skulls.
ANSWER: Shā Wùjìng [or Sandy; or Monk Sha; or Shā Sēng; or Friar Sand; or Sha Gojō; or Sa Oh Jeong; or Sa Ngộ Tịnh; or Sa Tăng; or Sua Cheng]
<Literature - World Literature - Misc Literature>
Summary
| 2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Thompson et al. | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | UBC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |