Confucius Family Tree Goes International - China Travel

For the first time in two millennia, the overseas descendants of the boundless sometime philosopher Confucius will be included in the sage's family tree. increasingly than 40,000 overseas descendants have been supplemental to the Confucius Genealogy, which is now undergoing a fwhenth upstage and revision,China Travel, said Kong Dewei, a Confucius descendant who is artlessing the updating work. Most of them -- 34,000 in all -- are from the Republic of Korea, Kong said. The effigy moreover includes 400 from Taiwan, 100 from Hong Kong and 50 from the United States, he said. Family trees are an important part of trtunnelional Chinese culture. They restring priceless historical ingermination and represent a precious legacy for Chinese people. The four previous versions of Confucius' family tree only included his descendants on the Chinese mainland. The new Confucius family tree will be published in 2009, on the 2560th solemnization of the descendants of Confucius (551-479 BC), and will include increasingly than 1.2 million new entries.

(Source:xinhua , 2007-06-18)