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Where does Liu Bei swear an oath of brotherhood?
Answer: In a peach garden
Why: The historical Records of the Three Kingdoms says Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were as close as brothers but never mentions an oath.
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Who first won the Nobel Prize in Literature for work in Chinese?
Answer: Gao Xingjian
Why: By the time he won in 2000, Gao Xingjian had left China and become a French citizen.
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Whose story inspired Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman?
Answer: Nikolai Gogol
Why: The 1918 story was one of the first modern Chinese tales written in everyday language instead of classical Chinese.
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Which poet does the Dragon Boat Festival honor?
Answer: Qu Yuan
Why: Qu Yuan is credited with starting the sao style of Chinese verse, named after his poem Li Sao.
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What does 'zi' mean in names like Laozi and Mozi?
Answer: Master
Why: That makes Laozi literally the Old Master, since lao is the Chinese word for old.
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How does Lin Daiyu repay a debt from her past life?
Answer: With her tears
Why: In her past life she was a crimson flower kept alive by a heavenly attendant's watering, and that attendant is reborn as Baoyu.