Chinjamrae is a national ceremony where the queen of the Joseon Dynasty personally picked mulberry leaves to breed silkworms. It was an important royal ceremony to encourage sericulture and to understand the difficulties of the labors of the people. Led by the queen, it was women's ceremony where the queen—as the mother of the state and representative figure of every woman—bred silkworm herself, thereby setting an example for other women. The ceremony is very important in that Chinjamrae was the only royal women's ceremony in the Joseon Dynasty where cultures of industry were systemized by ‘clothing,’ ‘courtesy’ and ‘art.’ After the establishment of the Republic of Korea, subsequent ceremonies were organized by the first lady of Korea: Yuk Young-soo in 1973, Park Geun-hye in 1974, Rhee Soon-ja in 1981, Lee Hee-ho in 2002, and Kwon Yang-sook in 2006.

From 1999 to 2007, the Chinjamrae ceremony was performed 8 times in such places as the Gyeongbokgung Palace by the Korea Costume Culture Center and the Chinjamrae Preservation Society. After a 7-year hiatus, Chinjamrae was executed again with support from the Yéol Korean Heritage Preservation in 2014 at Hamhwadang in the Gyeongbokgung Palace on October 2nd.