{"id":365,"date":"2010-09-04T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2024-07-30T14:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:04:31","slug":"longest-genealogy-in-world-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/longest-genealogy-in-world-to-be.html","title":{"rendered":"Largest Genealogy in the World to be Presented to Library of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 130%;\"><strong>The <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms; font-size: 130%;\"><strong>80 volume family history of Confucius &#8211; spanning 83 generations &#8211; will be presented to the Library of Congress<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\"> in special ceremonies in September.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s1600\/confucius.jpg\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512869137642360098\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 300px; float: left; height: 320px; cursor: hand;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/s320\/confucius.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration: Confucius\" width=\"300\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong>The event will be a ceremony marking a special donation to the Library of Congress of the Confucian genealogy. Ling-He Kung, a 76th-generation descendant of the revered Chinese philosopher, will donate an 80-volume set that documents Confucius\u2019s family tree. Published by the Beijing-based Culture and Literature Publishing House, the volumes record 83 generations (more than 2 million people) descended from Confucius. It is believed to be the biggest family tree in the world.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Born in 551 B.C. in Qufu in eastern China\u2019s Shandong Province, Confucius was a great teacher and thinker whose theories were the orthodox ideology in China for more than 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><strong>This genealogical event will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11 in the Asian Reading Room, located in room 150 of the Library\u2019s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, DC.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 80 volume family history of Confucius &#8211; spanning 83 generations &#8211; will be presented to the Library of Congress in special ceremonies in September. The event will be a ceremony marking a special donation to the Library of Congress of the Confucian genealogy. Ling-He Kung, a 76th-generation descendant of the revered Chinese philosopher, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3,72,4,5246,1129,1656,12,2191,1038,5370,5446,3153],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-ancestry","tag-asian","tag-birth","tag-chinese","tag-family","tag-family-tree","tag-genealogy","tag-history","tag-newspaper","tag-people","tag-thomas","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99914,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/99914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}