Maybe you don't know: Confucius family is the oldest family in the world

This great Chinese philosopher has more than 3 million descendants scattered throughout the world.

This is a real challenge for genealogy researchers. There are many families, of many different races, that have originated for thousands of years of history. There are lineages whose descendants have done all they can to write their names in history books, but there are also unfortunate lineages through countless events in human history. It was not until 2005 that Guinness world record books got their answers. The Confucian family is thought to be the oldest family in human history, with 86 generations in succession for 2500 years. This great Chinese philosopher has more than 3 million descendants scattered throughout the world.

And in order to maintain this continuity, the Confucius family needed tremendous effort. In 2009, the representative committee of this family made a great effort to draft the book "Genealogy of Confucius", a book that was cherished for more than a decade. The book contains the identity of more than 3 million descendants of this lineage circulating around the world.

Meticulous, careful and thorough are the prerequisites that this family has never broken. The book 'Genealogy of Confucius' first appeared in 1080. The most recent edition of it, the fourth, was in 1937, and this time, the Confucian genealogy committee had a lot of money. gather information from more than 450 genealogy branches around the world, and add up to 1 million and a half names.

No matter how much time changes, Chinese people still seem quite conservative with their pedigree methods. They use measures to set up a traditional genealogy tree and manually search through genealogy. DNA is only used when the genealogy status cannot determine the relevant state. Any candidate deemed to be unrelated to this genealogy will be removed directly, no matter how high the cost to bring that candidate into pedigree. Each name comes with a cost, along with a large number of records, papers and countless other checks - try to imagine 1.3 million names will cost. How much time, cost and effort take?

The Confucius family defeated two other families in the race to this record. These are the two long-established families of Germany, with the genealogical tree extending to nearly 120 generations. They are descendants of families that appeared from the Bronze Age more than 3000 years ago - however, the reason they were not recognized is because the genealogical tree has too many gaps in the generation, as well as many objects. not a direct descendant in the family.