Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, Xihe County, Shaanxi Province
Origin of "Song"
1. From The surname Zi is based on the name of the country. King Wu of Zhou granted Wei Ziqi, the eldest son of Emperor Yi of King Yin, to the Song dynasty. "Tongzhi Clan Brief" contains: Song Min, surnamed Zi, a descendant of Shang. ?The origin of the surname Zi is recognized by the public. 2. The surname Ji comes from Ji Song, an aristocratic official of the Zheng State during the Spring and Autumn Period. It is named after his ancestor. Gongzi Ji Song, also known as Zigong, was an aristocratic official of the Zheng State during the Spring and Autumn Period. He was a close friend of the prince Ji Guisheng (also known as Zijia). 3. It comes from the surnames changed or given by ethnic minorities. 4. The direct descendants of the former Huangdi Xuanyuan can be known from the name of Songshan, the place where Chi You defected in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The surname of the former Huangdi Xuanyuan was the Xiong family of Song. The oracle bone inscriptions of the mid-Shang Dynasty discovered by archeology have the surname Song. Words can prove it.
Distribution of Song surname
The contemporary population of Song surname has reached more than 9 million, making it the 23rd most common surname in the country. , accounting for approximately 0.72 of the country's population. The distribution in the country is mainly concentrated in the four provinces of Shandong, Henan, Hebei, and Heilongjiang, accounting for about 43% of the total population with the Song surname. Secondly, it is distributed in Liaoning, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Jilin, Hunan, and Anhui. These eight provinces Another 34 people with the Song surname were concentrated. Shandong is home to 14% of the total population with Song surnames, making it the largest province with Song surnames. The country has formed three regions with a high proportion of Song surnames: Hebei, Shandong and Henan, Sichuan and Hubei, and Heiji and Liaoning. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of the surname Song among the population shows that the surname Song is one of the more common surnames in North China, the Central Plains, the provinces along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Northeast region. In Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan, Beijing and Tianjin, northern Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei, most of Shaanxi, central Gansu, central and eastern Inner Mongolia, and central Sichuan, the proportion of the Song surname in the local population is generally the highest, above 0.81, and the highest proportion in the central area can reach 2.2 As mentioned above, its coverage area accounts for about 29% of the country's total area, and it is home to about 65% of the people with the Song surname. In other areas of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, western Inner Mongolia, northern and eastern Sichuan, northern Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, northern Hunan, northern Jiangxi and Zhejiang, southern Jiangxi, Anhui and Hubei, and Shanghai, the proportion of the local population with the Song surname is between 0.54 and 0.81. , its coverage area accounts for about 22% of the country's total area, and it is home to about 23% of people with the Song surname.
Song Yu: A native of Yan, Chu State during the Warring States Period, a scholar of poetry and literature. One theory is that he was a disciple of Qu Yuan, who was once the official of King Qingxiang of Chu. The popular works include "Nine Bian", "Feng Fu", "Gaotang Fu", "Dengtuzi Lustful Fu", etc.
Song Ci: A native of the Song Dynasty, named Huifu, his ancestral home is Nanhe County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province. He is a descendant of Song Jing, the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty. He lived in Jianyang with Zhu Xi, a master of Neo-Confucianism. He was an outstanding forensic scientist in ancient China and is known as the "Father of Forensic Medicine"; the five volumes of "The Collection of Cleansing of Wrongs" compiled by him are the earliest forensic medicine monographs in the world.
Song Yingxing: a native of Fengxin County, Jiangxi Province, a scientist in the Ming Dynasty, and the author of "Tiangong Kaiwu" (Tiangong Kaiwu), consisting of three volumes and eighteen chapters, is a book on ancient Chinese handicrafts and agriculture. A comprehensive scientific masterpiece on production technology, it also has great influence internationally.
Song Jiaoren: (April 5, 1882 - March 22, 1913), courtesy name Dunchu, nicknamed Yufu, Han nationality, from Taoyuan, Hunan. He was assassinated in Shanghai in 1913 at the age of thirty-two. The great pioneer of China's democratic revolution and the founder of the Republic of China was the first politician to advocate the cabinet system in the early days of the Republic of China.
Song Qingling, the late honorary president of the People's Republic of China (Mrs. Sun Yat-sen), is a world-famous figure of patriotism, internationalism and peaceful communism. A great soldier, an outstanding international political activist and an outstanding leader of the Communist Party of China.