china, descendants, virtue, wrongdoing

Wrongdoing Is Passed Down the Generations

There is a story in the Yuetan Sulu, which is a novel written by He Bang-e. It is the story of how wrongdoing impacts the lives of generations. In the Qing Dynasty, during the Qianlong reign, there was an examination testing site in Jiangnan Township where a candidate named Yu from Jiangyin was sitting in ...

Helen London

An examination testing site.

Descendants of Confucius Number Over 4 Million

Chinese history is filled with stories of prominent families, but few have survived more than a thousand years. One such family is the Kong family, which has seen the rise and fall of dynasties, and come through all the instability of those times to the present day. The family has now surpassed its 84th generation, ...

Nspirement Staff

Confucius Statue