The Kong Family Tree: 2,500 Years and 2 Million Descendants

When people talk about long family trees, they usually mean a few centuries at best. The family of Confucius, the revered Chinese philosopher born in 551 BCE, makes even the grandest European royal genealogies look brief. Painstakingly recorded across 80 volumes and 43,000 pages, the Kong clan's family tree has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest documented genealogy on Earth — and it's still growing.

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