The Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee is responsible for collecting, collating and publishing the 2,500 years worth of genealogical data associated with Confucius. The fifth edition of the Confucius genealogy was printed in September 2009. The collecting and collating the fifth edition started in 1998, when Kong Deyong, a 77th-generation descendant established the committee in Hong Kong. The last major publication of the Confucius genealogy was in 1930.
Famous quotes containing the words confucius, compilation and/or committee:
“I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.”
—Matthew Tindal (1653–1733)
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“The cemetery isn’t really a place to make a statement.”
—Mary Elizabeth Baker, U.S. cemetery committee head. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (June 13, 1988)