prays to the Buddha for three years. The priest returns and tells her to submerge her hands in a jar of oil for three years, and then to keep them burning for another three years while praying to the Buddha. At the end of these six years, Dorang-seonbi appears and tells her to follow him. He leads her on the treacherous road to the afterlife, and they are reunited for good in the realm of the dead. 2019 version After long anticipating their marriage, Dorang-seonbi and Cheongjeong-gaksi are finally married at the age of eighteen and fifteen respectively. But when Cheongjeong-gaksi offers wine to her husband during the wedding, the wine turns into water, oil, and blood. Dorang-seonbi falls ill, goes home without spending the night, and dies in three days. As in the 1926 version, her weeping reaches the Jade Emperor, who dispatches the Sage of the Golden Temple. Cheongjeong-gaksi's first task is to go to Geumsang Temple and recite ten thousand nianfo (ritual praises of the Buddha) without moving her hands or feet. When Dorang-seonbi arrives just before the final nianfo, she tries to grab him and fails the task. Her next ordeal is to dip and dry thirty-five mal of oil on her fingers, then to set the fingers on fire and smell her flesh burn. When Dorang-seonbi arrives as she lights her hand, she tries to grab him, accidentally extinguishing the fire. The Sage then orders Cheongjeong-gaksi to tear out her hair and thread it into the palms in her hand. This version then combines the two variations seen in the earlier versions. Once she has strung the rope into her palms, she must first go back and forth on it three thousand times, then be spun about on the rope another three thousand times. Dorang-seonbi arrives on the penultimate spin, and she tries to grab him. The rope snaps and she fails. The Sage then tells her to pave mountain roads with her bare hands. Dorang-seonbi arrives as she is about to place the final stone. When she tries to grab him first, a wind blows him away. As he vanishes, Dorang-seonbi tells her to commit suicide. She hangs herself and rejoins him in the afterlife. They both become gods. Comparison chart Religious purpose and significance The Song of Dorang-seonbi and Cheongjeong-gaksi is recited during the dorang-chugwon, the tenth rite of the Mangmuk-gut: the funeral