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Dongmaeng

Dongmaeng was a great state festival of Goguryeo held in the tenth month of the year to give thanks to Heaven, recorded in the Chinese Records of the Three Kingdoms. The whole country assembled for sacrifices, singing and dancing. It was one of several harvest festivals of the early Korean states.

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