History Lives - Buyeo and Samhan, Part 3: Yeonggo, Welcoming Heaven in the Depths of Winter

1. This history series article reports that Yeonggo, Buyeo's heavenly rite, was held in the first month of the lunar calendar, December in the solar calendar, and was a festival in which prisoners were released.
2. The Dongyi Zhuan section of the Records of the Three Kingdoms notes that people across the whole country ate, drank and danced for several days and nights, and that Dongmaeng and Mucheon were held in October.
3. The mainstream academic view sees these as traces of hunting and herding traditions, but some researchers point out that they may be the result of conversion to the Chinese calendar.

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