In 2001 , with the stated aim of improving the relationships between Taiwan and China , Hun Yuan organized in Taipei what became the first of a series of annual conferences on Guiguzi , featuring scholars from the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and reached an agreement with the authorities of the Chinese province of Henan to build there a Town of Chinese Culture , or City of Eight Trigrams ( a name derived from the I Ching ) , featuring several temples . In 2003 , Hun Yuan established the Gui Gu Zi Academic and Research Association , whose stated aim is to trace the origins and foundations of Chinese culture . In particular , the Association compiled a list of 15,615 Chinese family clan names , 917 names of emperors who ruled in China , and 3,762 wars which plagued Chinese history . For Hun Yuan , collecting these names does not serve a purely scholarly purpose but also a religious one . In 2004 , he organized in the Linkou Stadium , Taipei , the first “ Unified Ancestor Worship Ceremony for Chinese in the 21st Century , ” honoring all the ancestors of the Chinese peoples , particularly those who had died in different wars . Crowds in excess of 30,000 attend these ceremonies held each year on January 1 . Presidents of the republic of Taiwan and other senior political leaders have also participated in the ceremonies . In 2012 , Wu Ching-ji , then Taiwan ’s Minister of the Education , announced during a conference on Feng Shui that Hun Yuan had been nominated as a candidate for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize ( which was finally awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons )
2013 Nobel Peace Prize
2013 Nobel Peace Prize
Hun Yuan