Show trace lineage back for many centuries Cent urics wo we often speak of china as having tile oldest civilization in the alio world but we seldom appreciate tha hie full sig big of the statement I 1 once met a chinese by the name of kung hung who was the seventy sixth lineal dege descend end tint nut of tile the ider elder 6 brother of confucius and confucius lived in the years from to B 0 that la Is about as n old ohl it a family ns as one could find anywhere and it Is a family whose p pedigree Is absolutely uril unimpeachable impeach able the name confucius Is a Latini zed form of the words kung fu tze meaning ailster nung kung in ill the family temple tempie on tile the shantung estate of the kung family oan bo be seen the tablets of till all the ancestors of the family faintly from B 0 down to tile the present time I 1 might say further that confucius considered si when ii ho 0 lived that he belonged to a reasonably old family lie traced lila his ancestry back somewhere between and 1000 years nation ill at geographic magazine |