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National rituals and symbolic existence that lose the public worth are decayed by new authority. National shrine(Jong Myo, 宗廟) became a place of conflict, especially among the forses of Joseon Aristocracy and colonial power and was piled up with an ugly rumor. Joseon Governor General office’s policy regarding Yi Royal Family(李王家) and the Joseon Aristocracy is closely related on various incidents and transition of the National shrine(Jong Myo, 宗廟). These incidents and transformation were a product generated by the tension between the various forces. And These were occurred in long conflict, not at a time. This transition had a big hit on Korean identity. The image of decline in the National shrine(Jong Myo, 宗廟) was the embarrassing self-portrait of a Korean. The change of National shrine(Jong Myo, 宗廟) shows us well how to leave the traumas of Japanese colonial period by loss of a large symbolic and social meanings.