Family tree of Confucius in the main line of descent

This is a family tree of the main line of descent of Confucius ().

Family tree

List of prominent descendants of Confucius not in the main line

The title of Duke of Song and "Duke Who Continues and Honours the Yin" () were bestowed upon Kong An ( by the Eastern Han dynasty because he was part of the Shang dynasty's legacy. This branch of the Confucius family is a separate branch from the line that held the title of Marquis of Fengsheng village and later Duke Yansheng.

• Kong Anguo 11th generation descendant, son of Kong Zhong ()
• Kong Jie , Kong Xi , Kong Guang , sons of Kong Ba , younger brothers of Kong Fu . 14th generation descendants.
• Kong Zhou (Eastern Han) 19th generation descendant
• Kong Rong 20th generation descendant
• . During the Southern Song dynasty the descendant of Confucius at Qufu, the Duke Yansheng Kong Duanyou fled south with the Song Emperor to Quzhou, while the newly established Jin dynasty (1115–1234) in the north appointed Kong Duanyou's brother Kong Duancao who remained in Qufu as Duke Yansheng. From that time up until the Yuan dynasty, there were two Duke Yanshengs, one in the north in Qufu and the other in the south at Quzhou. An invitation to come back to Qufu was extended to the southern Duke Yansheng Kong Zhu by the Yuan dynasty Emperor Kublai Khan. The title was taken away from the southern branch after Kong Zhu rejected the invitation, so the northern branch of the family kept the title of Duke Yansheng. The southern branch still remained in Quzhou where they lived to this day. Confucius's descendants in Quzhou alone number 30,000. The Hanlin Academy rank of Wujing boshi was awarded to the southern branch at Quzhou by a Ming Emperor while the northern branch at Qufu held the title Duke Yansheng.
• Kong Ruogu 孔若古 Kong Chuan () 47th generation Claimed to be the ancestor of the Southern branch after Kong Zhu died by Northern branch member Kong Guanghuang. The leader of the southern branch is 孔祥楷 Kong Xiangkai.
• Kong Daofu 45th generation, Grand Master of Remonstrance of the Right under Emperor Renzong of Song
• Kong Zonghan 孔宗翰 46th generation, Song dynasty official
• Kong Zongyuan 46th generation
• Kong Ruozhuo 47th generation
• Kong Yu 孔瑀, 49th generation
• Kong Zongshou 孔宗壽 46th generation
• Kong Jian
• Kong Shuxuan
• Kong Yingda 32nd generation descendant, son of Kong An () 31st generation, son of Kong Shuo () 30th generation, son of Kong Linggui ( 29th generation, descendant of Kong Yang 22nd generation, son of Kong Yu 21st generation, 7th generation descendant of Kong Fu ) (The Kong An here was a 31st generation descendant who lived during the Northern Qi and was not the same as the Kong An () shown on the tree who was a 17th generation descendant who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty)
• Kong Xiuyuan 32nd generation
• Kong Zongfan 33rd generation
• Kong Yuntong 33rd generation
• Kong Keren 55th generation descendant.
• Kong Gongxun 58th generation
• Kong Wenji 62nd generation
• Kong Zhenkan 孔貞堪, 63rd generation, Magistrate of Qufu, surrendered to Li Zicheng.
• Kong Shangze 孔尚則 64th generation.
• Kong Shangren 64th generation descendant
• Kung Tian Cheng 72th generation descendant, First Clerk of Raffles Library, Singapore, then Chief Librarian of Yuan Shikai's Presidential Library
• Kong Xianglin (K'ung Hsiang-lin) 75th generation descendant
• H. H. Kung (Kong Xiangxi) 75th generation descendant, son of Kong Fanci ()
• His children were Kong Lingyi (Kung Ling-i) , Kong Lingkan (Kung Ling-k'an) , Kong Lingjun (Kung Ling-chun) , and Kong Lingjie (Kung Ling-chie) . One of H. H. Kung's sons, Kong Lingjie married Debra Paget who gave birth to Gregory Kung ().
• Kong Xianglin 孔祥林, philosopher, Deputy Dean of the Research Institute of Confucianism, Director of the Qufu Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Relics.
• Kong Fanqi () 74th generation descendant, mother of Li Fengshan () and grandmother of Ann Li ()
• Kong Zhaoshou 71st generation descendant
• Kong Zhaowei 孔昭巍 71st generation descendant
• Kong Deyong, 77th generation descendant
• Kong Xiangxian, Chinese Muslim, 75th generation descendant
• Kong Dejun () Chinese Muslim Islamic scholar, 77th generation descendant
• Kong Lingjun 孔令儁, 76th generation descendant
• ( in Korean; Gokbu Gong clan in English): During the Yuan dynasty, Gong So (孔紹/공소, 1304-1381), who claimed to be a son of Kong Huan , moved from China to Goryeo era Korea during Toghon Temür's rule. Gong So's descendants have established numerous cadet branches to the modern era.

Generation name

Along with the descendants of the other Four Sages (Confucius, Mencius, Zengzi, and Yan Hui), the descendants of Confucius still determine part of their children's given names using this generation poem given to them by the Ming dynasty Jianwen Emperor and extended by later emperors:

See also

• Duke Yansheng (the title of these descendants since the Song dynasty)
• Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee
• Well known individual descendants of Confucius listed by generation
• Family tree tracing descent from the Yellow Emperor down to the Dukes of Yansheng
• Family tree showing the split between the Northern and Southern branches of Confucius descendants.
• History of the Confucius Family Tree compilation
• Cadet branches which break off at Kong Renyu 孔仁玉.
• Cadet branches from the five sons of Kong Zhaohuan
• The 12 cadet branches descended from Kong Xingxie
• Gokbu Gong clan Branch of Confucius descendants in Korea established by Kong Shao who moved from China to Korea and married a Korean woman.

Bibliography

• Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of the Shang Dynasty 《史记·殷本纪》
• Wang Guowei, Guantang Jilin 王国维《观堂集林》
• Records of the Grand Historian: House of Song Weizi《史记·宋微子世家》
• Records of the Grand Historian: House of Kongzi《史记·孔子世家》
• Chunqiu Zuozhuan zhengyi 《春秋左传正义·昭公七年》
• Book of Han: Annals of Emperor Cheng 《汉书·成帝纪》
• Book of Han: Table of nobles from families of the imperial consorts《汉书·外戚恩泽表》
• Book of Han: Biographies of Kuang, Zhang, Kong and Ma《汉书·匡张孔马传》
• Book of the Later Han: Biographies of Confucians 《后汉书·儒林传上·孔僖传》
• Annotation of Book of the Later Han: Biographies of Confucians 《后汉书注·儒林传上·孔僖传》
• New Book of Tang: Table of genealogy of Chancellors V 《新唐书·宰相世系表五》
• History of Song: Biographies of Confucians I 《宋史·儒林一·孔宜传》
• History of Song: Rites 22《宋史•志第七十二》
• History of Jin: Biography of Kong Fan 《金史·孔璠传》
• History of Yuan: Biography of Kong Sihui 《元史·孔思晦传》
• History of Ming: Biographies of Confucians III 《明史·儒林三·孔希学传》
• Draft History of Qing: Biographies of Confucians IV《清史稿·儒林四》
• Liancongzi《连从子·叙书》
• Genealogy book of House of Kongzi《孔子世家谱》 山东友谊出版社
• Family Sayings of Confucius 《孔子家語》

References

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