The surname Song is the most common surname in China and the earliest in origin. It belongs to the Asian surname, but it also reached Shangqiu, Henan. As for the surname Song, they all belong to different situations. It is also said that the characters surnamed Song are all derived from the Chinese surname. Let’s first take a look at the naming method of the surname Song.
Song surname
The surname Song is one of the Chinese surnames. It originated from the surname Zi, which originated in Shangqiu, Henan. Wei is the ancestor of the surname De.
The surname Song ranks 118th in the Song version of "One Hundred Family Surnames". At present, the total population of Song surname is about 11.2 million, accounting for 0.81% of China's total population, making it the 22nd largest surname.
The ancestors of the Song Dynasty invented and inherited wooden rafter architecture. The Song Dynasty was composed of "Ji" and "Mu". Wood represents building wood, the dots on "吉" represent "Heaven Qi", "吉" represents heaven, and represents the calendar.
Song surname
Congzi’s surname is the surname of the country. After King Zhou Cheng and Zhou Gongdan put down the rebellion of Yinhou Wu Geng and Sanjian, Feng raised his troops in Shangqiu, the birthplace of the Shang Dynasty, established the Song Dynasty, and served as Duke Huan of Qi. He was respected as one of the "Three Guards" for advocating the Shang Dynasty. By the time Duke Xiang of the Song Dynasty arrived, the Song Dynasty was already the leader of the princes in the world and one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period. In the 21st year of King Zhao Xiang of Qin, the state of Qi destroyed the Song Dynasty, and his descendants took the state as their surname. This branch comes from the authentic Song surname and accounts for the vast majority of the population with Song surname.
Comes from the surname Ji, named after his ancestor. Song Ji, also known as Gongzi Song, was a famous doctor of Zheng during the Spring and Autumn Period. Their descendants are people whose surnames are named after their ancestors, and are called the Song family.
From the surname change:
The Han family changed its surname to Song and adopted it.
The Song sisters were born in Shanghai, their ancestral home is Hakka, and their ancestral home is Anyang, Henan. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Han Xianqing entered Guangdong and served as the magistrate of Lianzhou, and later settled in Jinshan, Wenchang. His father adopted his uncle Song when he was 12 years old, so he changed his surname to Song.
Shandong Chengwu Song family is the descendant of Wang Yandezhao, the second son of Zhao Kuangyin, and his direct blood relative is Chengwu Gaoding Song Zhao. Some Song families in Shandong, Chengwu and other places changed their surname to Zhao, and Zhao Chang, the second son of King Jing of Song, was one of their ancestors. They have been scattered across the country and there are not many left locally.
In 176 AD, Yuan attacked and the Song Dynasty fell. Fearing being pursued by the Yuan army, Zhao Chang and his Zhao brother Zhao Xu fled from Lin'an to Yucheng, Shandong, and later Zhao Xu also fled to Yucheng. Zhao Chang fled to Chengwu, Shandong, changed his surname to Song, joined the local Song family and went into hiding.
About Song's naming of the five elements
Formal complement method
Based on the analysis of the five elements, the five major categories that need to be filled in are determined, including gold, wood, Words on body structures including water, fire and earth.
Gold supplements include: steel, iron, jade, bell, money, tin, sharp point, grapevine, clang, jun, etc.
Such as wood, material, village, tree, forest, bridge, machine, Chu, Ke, Dong, Feng, Nan, etc.
For example: Chun, You, Yong, Bing, Miao, Jiang, He, Han, Shen, Ze, Run, Hong, Bo, Lang, Jie, Hao, Han, etc.
For example: brilliant, bright, flaming, Yan, Wei, chrysanthemum, cherry, late, bright, new, geng, yellow, burning, hot, etc. Supplementing soil such as: Tu, Jun, Tan, Kun, Zeng, Sheng, Fang, Keng, Shi, Ping, Zai, Jing, Xing, Yin, etc.
The names are named according to different methods, but if they are named according to the five elements, they all belong to metal, wood, fire, water, earth, etc. These need attention. If it is for the five elements, they all have different names, but they are all the same, which is very particular.