This paper examined relevant literature materials on <Dongdong> and applied various critique methods to analyse ritual nature of <Dongdong>. Main findings are as follow: Upon consideration of the Veritable Records in the regin of King Jung-jong, Hakyonhwadae-choyongmuhapsol(鶴蓮花臺處容舞合設) in Ak- hakguebum(樂學軌範) and Yongjaechongwha(慵齋叢話), we find that <Dong- dong> was sung during the ritual in the Royal Court, Narye(儺禮), as the ritual of New Year and rebirth, and from the proceeding of the ritual described in Hakyonhwadae-choyongmuhapsol, one of its functions was to possess the wishes previously by foreseeing the coming year through the resuscitated souls of ancestors. In comparison with <Jungup> on the basis that the burden is the same as that of ‘Jungup(餘音井邑餘音同)’ before the musical scores of <Dong- dong> recorded in Daeakhubo(大樂後譜), we find that <Jungup> is a variation of <Dongdong> and that <Dongdong>was composed of 12 burdens in its musical structure. Considering the fact that 5notes and 12 rhythms in music were, as remarked in the preface of Akhakguebum, based on the movements of 5planets and 12 months, the fundamental prin- ciple of the universe, we can guess that another function of <Dongdong> was to restore the universal rhythm and attempt to bring it into harmony.

This paper examined relevant literature materials on <Dongdong> and applied various critique methods to analyse ritual nature of <Dongdong>. Main findings are as follow: Upon consideration of the Veritable Records in the regin of King Jung-jong, Hakyonhwadae-choyongmuhapsol(鶴蓮花臺處容舞合設) in Ak- hakguebum(樂學軌範) and Yongjaechongwha(慵齋叢話), we find that <Dong- dong> was sung during the ritual in the Royal Court, Narye(儺禮), as the ritual of New Year and rebirth, and from the proceeding of the ritual described in Hakyonhwadae-choyongmuhapsol, one of its functions was to possess the wishes previously by foreseeing the coming year through the resuscitated souls of ancestors. In comparison with <Jungup> on the basis that the burden is the same as that of ‘Jungup(餘音井邑餘音同)’ before the musical scores of <Dong- dong> recorded in Daeakhubo(大樂後譜), we find that <Jungup> is a variation of <Dongdong> and that <Dongdong>was composed of 12 burdens in its musical structure. Considering the fact that 5notes and 12 rhythms in music were, as remarked in the preface of Akhakguebum, based on the movements of 5planets and 12 months, the fundamental prin- ciple of the universe, we can guess that another function of <Dongdong> was to restore the universal rhythm and attempt to bring it into harmony.

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Dongdong, Hakyonhwadae-choyongmuhapsol, Akhakguebum, Yongjaechongwha, Narye, the ritual of New Year, <Jung- up>, Daeakhubo.