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A ceremony is held to mark the 2,568th birthday of Confucius, in Qufu, east China's Shandong Province, Sept. 28, 2017. Confucius, a great Chinese thinker and philosopher, had his birthday celebrated around the country on Thursday. (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)