Pupils show the Chinese character "He" -- meaning harmony -- they just wrote during a ceremony to celebrate Confucius' birthday at the Confucius Temple in Qufu, his birthplace, east China's Shandong Province, on Sept. 28, 2009. The grand ceremony was held in Qufu on Monday to commemorate the 2,560th birthday of Confucius, the great ancient Chinese thinker and philosopher revered around the world. [Xinhua]
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