Flight route opens ahead of Confucius commemoration
China Dailyezhejiang.gov.cn| Updated :2024-09-28 A new Quzhou-Jining flight route was launched on Sept 25, linking two cities with a rich Confucian heritage just in time for the 2,575th anniversary of Confucius' birth on Sept 28. This year marks the first time that Quzhou's Confucius Ceremony, the Southern Confucius Memorial, will serve as a satellite venue for China's 2024 China International Confucius Cultural Festival in Qufu, a county-level city of Jining in Shandong province. Flights are scheduled to run on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays from Sept 25 to Oct 10, with departure from Quzhou at 6:05 pm and arrival in Jining at 7:40 pm. The eldest member of Confucius' descendants in the 48th generation, Kong Duanyou, also moved to the south and settled in Quzhou, giving rise to the southern branch of the family.