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Confucius Birth Anniverary marked

www.chinanews.cn 2005-09-28 09:50:16

(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)

Scene of the grand ceremony at the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, east
China's Shandong Province Sept.28, 2005.

Sept. 28 - A grand ceremony is being held in Qufu Wednesday in the
birthplace of Confucius to mark the 2,556th anniversary of the great
Chinese thinker.
The memorial ceremony is part of the activities planned for the 2005
China Qufu International Confucius Cultural Festival that opened in Qufu,
a city in east China's Shandong Province, Monday evening.
The cultural festival is jointly held by the United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), ChinaNational
Administration of Tourism, and other organizations.
According to organizers, memorial activities are being held
simultaneously in six cities in the Republic of Korea, Japan, Singapore,
the United States and Germany, as well as in China's Taiwan Province and
Hong Kong.
Confucius (551 B.C. - 479 B.C.) was a great thinker, statesman and
educator in Chinese history, and founder of the Confucian school of
thought.

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