A performer waits for the start of a rehearsal for a ceremony in Qufu, east China's Shandong Province, Sept. 27, 2007. Qufu, the birth place of Confucius (551 B.C. - 479 B.C.), great thinker, philosopher, and educator in ancient China, is to hold a grand ceremony to mark the 2,558th birth anniversary of Confucius, on Sept. 28, 2007. (Xinhua Photo)
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