Students recite excerpts of the Analects of Confucius during a ceremony commemorating the 2,562nd birthday of Confucius (551-479 BC), a great Chinese thinker, educationist and philosopher, in Quzhou of east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 28, 2011. Local teachers and students and the presidents of 10 Confucius Institutes in 9 countries and regions participated in the ceremony. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)
A student attends a ceremony commemorating the 2,562nd birthday of Confucius (551-479 BC), a great Chinese thinker, educationist and philosopher, in Quzhou of east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 28, 2011. Local teachers and students and the presidents of 10 Confucius Institutes in 9 countries and regions participated in the ceremony. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)
A ceremony is held at the Confucius Temple in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Sept. 28, 2011, to commemorate the 2,562nd birthday of Confucius (551-479 BC), a great Chinese thinker, educationist and philosopher. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
A ceremony is held at the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Confucius' hometown in east China's Shandong Province, Sept. 28, 2011, to commemorate the 2,562nd birthday of Confucius (551-479 BC), a great Chinese thinker, educationist and philosopher. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui)
People attend the ceremony held at the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Confucius' hometown in east China's Shandong Province, Sept. 28, 2011, to commemorate the 2,562nd birthday of Confucius (551-479 BC), a great Chinese thinker, educationist and philosopher. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui)
Students take part in a ceremony commemorating the 2,562nd birthday of Confucius (551-479 BC), a great Chinese thinker, educationist and philosopher, in Fuzhou of southeast China's Fujian Province, Sept. 28, 2011. (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)
