Foreigners can be part of Confucius family tree

Confucius lived and taught about 2,500 years ago. He now has more than 3 million descendants living across the world. But women and members of ethnic minorities have not been included in his family tree.

And that is exactly what the Confucius Genealogy Compilation Committee has set out to do.

The committee, based in Jinan, capital of the philosopher and educator's home province of Shandong, has asked all of them, irrespective of their citizenship, to contact it and prove their ancestry to help compile a comprehensive family tree.