The genealogy of the Kong clan is the longest-lasting, most comprehensive and most complete genealogy in Chinese history.
However, before the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of the Kong clan did not have a fixed lineage, and the number of people at that time was still small, and the names of each family were very arbitrary. Since the forty-fifth generation, attention has been paid to defining the line of generations, but it is not strict, and the same generation often uses the same side or the same word as the line generation.
Kong Xiangxi
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang successively gave the Kong clan cross as a line of characters, starting from the fifty-sixth generation, after which the Kong clan people were not allowed to take random names and use them as the line of the Kong surname:
Xi (士), Yan (伯), Gong (文), 彦 (朝), Cheng (永), 宏 (以), Wen (質), Zhen (用), Shang (之), Yan (茂).
During the reign of Ming Chongzhen, Kong Yinzhi, the Sixty-fifth Dynasty Emperor of Yansheng, reported to the Emperor and established a cross of the Tenth Generation.
During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, Kong Xiangke, the Seventy-fifth Dynasty Emperor of Yansheng, was approved by the Emperor and established the Cross Ten Generations.
In 1919, the Seventy-sixth Generation of Yan Sheng Gong Kong Lingyi was re-established by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the People's Republic of China for the twenty-second generation.
Kong Fansen
The above several lines are counted as five crosses and fifty generations, which are fifty-six generations to one hundred and five generations, in order:
Kimihiko Kiki
Hongwen Zhen Shangyin
Xingyu passed on widely
Zhao Xianqing is prosperous
Let Devi bless
Chinshao is prominent
Jiandao Dun is stable
Mao Xiu Zhao Yi Chang
Yuwen Huan Jingrui
Yongxi Shixuchang
(Note: Hong, also known as Hong, was originally the character "胤", and kong Yinzhi, the Duke of Yansheng, changed the character "胤" to "Yan" in order to avoid the emperor's temple.) ）
Kong Qingdong
Among the genealogical celebrities surnamed Kong, it is recorded that:
72nd Sun Yan Shenggong Kong Qingrong (Kong Xian Zengzi, succeeded Kong Xianpei, 1794), Kong Qingyi (Kong Xianzi, 5th grandson of Kong Chuanjin, Nanzong)
73rd Emperor Sun Yan Sheng Gong Kong Fanhao (Kong Qingrongzi), Kong Fanjia, Kong Fanhao (Kong Fanying's brother, childless, Nanzong)
74th Sun Yan Sheng Gong Kong Xiang Ke (Kong Fan Haozi), Kong XiangZhuang, Kong Xiang Kai (Kong Fanying's eldest son, passed to Kong Fanhao, Nanzong, Dacheng Most Holy Ancestor Nanzong)
Kong Lingyi (孔祥珂子, Zigu Sun), the 75th Emperor of The Sun Dynasty, inherited the YanShengGong in 1877 (the third year of Guangxu, at the age of 5), and died of illness on November 8, 1919 at the Yansheng Gongfu on TaibuSi Street in Beijing
According to the order of the characters and the comparison of lineage celebrities, Kong Qingdong is the 72nd grandson, Kong Fansen is the 73rd grandson, Kong Xiangxi is the 74th grandson, and Kong Linghui is the 75th grandson.
Kong Linghui