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A god of these events is depicted as a hunchbacked man standing on a turtle and balancing a ladle of stars with his other foot. The attendants “Heaven Deaf” and “Earth Mute” could assist during these events. An idiom associates these events with carp who swim up a waterfall to reach the Dragon Gate. (-5[1])After bashing his own brains out due to one of these events, a man became a god (15[1])who is followed by a flock of five bats and rescued Yang Guifei’s (“yong gway-fay’s”) perfume bag in a dream of Emperor Xuanzong (“shwen-dzong”) as the commander of an army of 80,000 (*) ghost-hunting demons. Success in one of these events (10[1])opens the “Yellow Millet Dream” of Lü Dongbin. (10[2])During these (10[1])events, men carrying the Four (-5[1])Treasures (10[1])wrapped in bamboo mats might be searched for silk sheets covered in miniscule (-5[1])writing as they tried to become (10[2])jinshi (10[1])(“JEEN-shurr”). For 10 (10[1])points, name these events used (10[1])to fill imperial China’s bureaucracy. ■END■ (10[4])

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