1. It comes from the son's surname and takes the country name as the surname. In Zhou Chengwang, after Zhou Gongdan put down the rebellion of Wu Geng and Sanjian in the Yin Dynasty, Wei Ziqi was established in Shangqiu, the birthplace of Shang Dynasty, and the Song State was established, making him a duke and honoring him as one of the "three curses" to worship the Shang Dynasty. By the time he arrived in Song Xianggong, the State of Song had become the leader of the princes in the world and one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the twenty-first year of King Zhao Xiang of Qin (286 BC), the State of Qi destroyed the Song Dynasty, and the descendants took the country as their surname. The source of this branch is the authentic surname of Song, which accounts for the vast majority of the population of Song.
2. It comes from Ji's surname, and takes the ancestral name as the surname. Ji Song, the word Zigong, also known as Gongzi Song, was a noble doctor of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period. Some of his descendants take the name of their ancestors as their surnames, which is called the Song family.
Contemporary Song surname is the 22nd most popular surname. Celebrities: Soong Ching Ling, Song Meiling, Song Chunfang, James Soong.
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During the Song Dynasty, there were about 88, Song surnames, accounting for 1.1% of the total population of China, ranking 16th. Shaanxi is the largest province of Song surname, accounting for about 19.4% of the total population of Song surname. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shaanxi, Hebei, Sichuan and Henan. The Song surnames in these four provinces account for 67% of the total population of the Song surnames, followed by Shanxi, Zhejiang and Shandong, and the Song surnames in these three provinces are concentrated by 16%. China has formed two population gathering areas of the Song surname centered on Qinchuan and Hebei and Henan, and the Song surname mainly lives in the northern region.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 54, people named Song, accounting for .57% of the total population of China, ranking 37th. Shandong is the largest province of Song surname, accounting for about 17.1% of the total population of Song surname. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, where the Song surname accounts for about 46% of the total population, followed by Shanxi, Jiangsu and Hebei, where 25% of the population is concentrated. Its population mainly migrates from north to east, southeast and south.
During the 6 years of Song Yuanming, the net growth rate of China's total population was 2%, while the population growth of Song surname was negative. In the face of war and slaughter, the victims are mainly in the north, and the surname of Song is the surname of the north, which has suffered heavy losses. China has re-formed two large areas where the population of Song surname is concentrated: Luji, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
Baidu encyclopedia-Song's family