공자가 동이족이라는 주요 근거는 공자가 죽기 직전 자신의 빈소가 상나라식으로 차려졌다는 꿈을 꾸었다는 데에 있다.
The main ground that Confucius was the Dong Yi was that he dreamed that his own mortuary was decorated as a way of Shang Dynasty just before Confucius died.