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.