Have you considered that the reason she's completely unimpressed and said 'there are a lot of them' is, well, that there are indeed a lot of them? Given Confucius's birth in 550 BC and that his main lineage spans 80 generations (and that each main line descendant was given official titles, land, and privileges, so they likely had to be well documented), it's possible that a significant number of modern Chinese can trace their ancestry back to him.
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Have you considered that the reason she's completely unimpressed and said 'there are a lot of them' is, well, that there are indeed a lot of them? Given Confucius's birth in 550 BC and that his main lineage spans 80 generations (and that each main line descendant was given official titles, land, and privileges, so they likely had to be well documented), it's possible that a significant number of modern Chinese can trace their ancestry back to him.
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