Show Trace Lineage Back for Many Centuries We Wc often speak of China Chinn as liS having the oldest civilization cl In III the world but we seldom appreciate the full Cull significance till sig of the statement I once mot met n Chinese o by the tile name of ot Kung who was tuns the seven sixth seventy lineal descendant descend descend- ant of the elder brother of Confucius and Confucius lived lint In the years from GOO to IJ n. C. C That Is about as ns 01 old olda 1 a family as ns one could find anywhere and It Is a family whose pedigree Is absolutely on unimpeachable The name Confucius Is n a form of ot the words Kung tze meaning mennIng menn mean ing Master Kung In the family f temple tern tem pie on the Shantung estate of the Kung Kung- family can be lIe seen the tablets of ot nil the ancestors of the family from II It C. C down ln to the time present pre time I might say lIay further that Confucius considered con cort- when he lived rd that he be belonged be be- longed longel to a n reasonably oJ old family he traced his bis ancestry back somewhere re I between 7 j H and 1000 jears Nation ears 11 tl Geographic Magazine |