The Jongmyo Daeje Ceremony, Seoul
The officials, carrying “Gyu” sceptres, leaving the Yeongnyeongjeon, the Hall of Eternal Peace, after the Jongmyo Jerye ceremony, the Royal Ancestral Memorial Rite, also called Jongmyo Daeje, (“Great Jongmyo Rite”), a seasonal Confucian ceremony held at Jongmyo, the Royal Ancestral Shrine of the Joseon Dynasty, to honour the kings and their consorts whose mortuary tablets are enshrined here.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Sun May 04, 2014