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What Chinese word for 'the Way' is central to the Analects?
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Whose family tree is the longest on record?
Answer: The Kong family
Why: The 2009 edition of the family tree names more than two million descendants of Confucius.
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Which era is named after a chronicle tied to Confucius?
Answer: Spring and Autumn period
Why: The chronicle logs events in Confucius's home state of Lu year by year, from 722 to 481 BC.
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What gift did Confucius accept from new students?
Answer: Dried meat
Why: That gift, shuxiu in Chinese, later became a literary word for the salary of a private tutor.
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What holiday does Taiwan hold on Confucius's birthday?
Answer: Teachers' Day
Why: Mainland China marks its own Teachers' Day on September 10, while Taiwan keeps it on Confucius's birthday, September 28.
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When did China abolish its exams on the Confucian classics?
Answer: 1905
Why: The exams ended in 1905, about six years before the 1911 revolution brought down the Qing dynasty.
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What does the Confucian ideal 'junzi' literally mean?
Answer: Son of a lord
Why: The word once marked noble birth, but Confucius turned it into a moral ideal any person could aspire to.
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