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Confucius's descendants in Quzhou alone number 30,000. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Hanlin Academy rank of Wujing boshi 五經博士 was awarded to the southern branch at Quzhou by a Ming Emperor while the northern branch at Qufu held the title Duke Yansheng.
Pages in category "Descendants of Confucius" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
The fifth edition of the Confucius genealogy was printed in September 2009. [1] The collecting and collating of the fifth edition started in 1998, when Kong Deyong, a 77th-generation descendant, established the committee in Hong Kong. The last major previous publication of the Confucius genealogy was in 1930. [2]
Many descendants of Confucius still live in Qufu today. A descendant of Confucius, H. H. Kung, was the Premier of the Republic of China. One of his sons, Kong Lingjie (孔令傑), married Debra Paget [133] who gave birth to Gregory Kung (孔德基). Confucius's family, the Kongs, have the longest recorded extant pedigree in the world today.
His father's name contained the character 令 Ling because it was the generation name for 76th generation descendants of Confucius. On 6 June 1920, shortly after his birth, he was appointed Duke Yansheng by President Xu Shichang in accordance with an imperial tradition dating back to 1055 of bestowing the title on the eldest male in each ...
The descendants of Confucius who lived at the mansion and held the hereditary titles held feasts with a unique cuisine. [163] One dish served by cooks of the Duke Yansheng in Qufu was called "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea". [164] [165] Confucius's descendants had a 2,000 year old food culture which was unique among the Chinese aristocracy.
The Kong Family Mansion (Chinese: 孔府; pinyin: Kǒng fǔ) was the historical residence of the direct descendants of Confucius in the City of Qufu, the hometown of Confucius in Shandong Province, China. [1] The extant structures mainly date from the Ming and Qing dynasties. From the mansion, the family tended to the Confucian sites in Qufu ...
Their Bon-gwan (Korean: 본관; Hanja: 本貫) are in Qufu, Shandong in China, which was also Confucius's birthplace. [1] [2] Qufu is known as Gokbu (Korean: 곡부) in Korean. According to the South Korean 2000 census, the number of individuals identifying with the Gokbu Gong clan was 74,135. The apical ancestor of the clan was Confucius.