Latest version of Confucius family tree
2009-09-24 10:00:24 GMT2009-09-24 18:00:24 (Beijing Time)
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Photo taken on Sept. 24, 2009 shows the latest version of Confucius family tree that made its debut in Qufu, the birth place of Confucius, in east China's Shandong Province. The 80-volume publication, the longest family tree according to the Guinness Book of World Records, containing over 2 million manes of the offspring of the ancient Chinese educator and philosopher's family, is the result of 10 years' efforts of a compiling committee that for the first time puts all the female, ethnic and oversease Confucius family members into the tree. Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) is a great Chinese educator, philosopher, a renowned politician and the founding father of Confucianism.(Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
Photo taken on Sept. 24, 2009 shows the latest version of Confucius family tree that made its debut in Qufu, the birth place of Confucius, in east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Fan Changguo)
Photo taken on Sept. 24, 2009 shows the latest version of Confucius family tree that made its debut in Qufu, the birth place of Confucius, in east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
Photo taken on Sept. 24, 2009 shows the latest version of Confucius family tree that made its debut in Qufu, the birth place of Confucius, in east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
A ceremony is hled to celebrate the latest version of Confucius family tree that made its debut on Sept. 24, 2009 in Qufu, the birth place of Confucius, in east China's Shandong Province. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)
Photos taken on Sept. 24, 2009 show the latest version of Confucius family tree that made its debut in Qufu, the birth place of Confucius, in east China's Shandong Province.
The 80-volume publication, the longest family tree according to the Guinness Book of World Records, containing over 2 million manes of the offspring of the ancient Chinese educator and philosopher's family, is the result of 10 years' efforts of a compiling committee that for the first time puts all the female, ethnic and oversease Confucius family members into the tree. Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) is a great Chinese educator, philosopher, a renowned politician and the founding father of Confucianism.
