The Kong clans of Taiwan and Qufu paid homage to each other: The epidemic cannot stop the kinship between the two sides of the strait, where blood is thicker than water

"The epidemic has blocked the way back to the hometown, but it cannot stop the blood on both sides of the strait from thicker than water."

On January 30, Kong Fanjin, chairman of the World Confucius Descendants Taiwan Friendship Association and the Taiwan Association for the Promotion of Confucianism of Chinese Confucius Descendants, paid tribute to the Confucius Clan in Qufu via video, and he looked forward to the early lifting of the epidemic and the cross-strait Confucian Association of Chinese Confucius Descendants to meet and rejoice.

Kong Fanjin paid tribute to the Confucius Clan of Qufu through video Source: Qufu Confucius Confucianism Promotion Association Weibo (01:15)

On the occasion of the Year of the Tiger, Kong Fanjin, on behalf of the World Confucius Descendants Taiwan Friendship Association and the Chinese Confucius Descendants Confucianism Promotion Association, would like to pay tribute to the Confucius Sect in Qufu and wish everyone a happy, safe and healthy New Year.

A day earlier, Kong Lingyu, chairman of the Qufu Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the Confucius Descendants Confucianism Promotion Association of the Chinese Confucius Society, also paid tribute to the Kong clan in Taiwan through a video on behalf of the Qufu Kong Clan Clan Friendship Association, wishing all the Kong clans in Taiwan a happy Year of the Tiger.

Kong Lingyu sends New Year greetings to the descendants of Confucius in Taiwan at his hometown in Qufu Source: Qufu Confucius Confucianism Promotion Association Weibo (01:02)

Kong Lingyu said that on December 26, 2021, the New Year's Sincere Talks held by the Kong clan relatives on both sides of the Taiwan Strait through video link were very successful. The Kong clan relatives on both sides of the strait have joined hands by video, recounted family affection, conspired to inherit and develop Chinese culture, and exchanged New Year greetings. After the meeting, he conveyed Mr. Kong's greetings to his hometown in Qufu and his greetings to Kong's relatives.

The covid-19 epidemic has temporarily blocked the mutual exchanges between the Kong clans on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the Taiwan clan relatives have temporarily interrupted their journey back to their hometowns after the outbreak of the epidemic, and the clan relatives in the mainland cannot go to Taiwan for friendship and exchanges for the time being. After preliminary communication and joint agreement, the Kong clan relatives on both sides of the strait shared family affection in the form of online exchanges, enhanced family feelings in exchanges, gathered the roots of clan relatives, and jointly thought about the greater role played by the descendants of Confucius in promoting the inheritance and innovation of China's excellent traditional culture represented by Confucianism.