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A song of Cho-young is the song which inherits the tradition of ancient shamanism in East Asia. If we compare Korean ancient songs and Japanese ancient songs, we can easily find the common shamanistic traits. For instance, invocations for Heaven, play in a group, and sexual events.
Especially if we assume Cho-young as a man of holy spirit who visits earth to bless people and units with a virgin as Japanese shamanism, we may be able to explain the obscure entity of Cho-young, a man or a man of holy spirit.
Through the analysis of a song of Cho-young we can find a sense of virtue in Cho- young. The terms in the song, “Two had been mine! No, no, they are taken." obviously stands for his agony. It alludes that a evil spirit (or a evil man) ravished the pureness of a woman, a wife of Cho-young.
We may define this mythological song as a satire or a moral for the end of the Shinra Empire. But this song implies that people in that time already understood the meaning of a corruption and a rapine.