Song is thepinyin transliteration of theChinese family name宋. It is transliterated asSung inWade-Giles, andSoong is also a common transliteration. In addition to being a common surname, it is also the name of a Chinese dynasty, theSong dynasty, written with the same character.
In the written records of Chinese history, the first time the character Song was used as a surname appeared in the early stage of theZhou dynasty. One of the children of the last emperor of theShang dynasty,Weizi Qi (微子启), was a duke from the state named Song, who descended from his ancestorXie (契) whose name was derived from the surnameZi (子).Xie was born fromJiandi from the swallow from the blackbird egg, who came fromYousong (有娀), the legendary state,[1] at north ofMount Buzhou. TheState of Song, Song's dominion, became part of the Zhou dynasty after the fall of theShang dynasty, and was inherited from the dynasty formally in 11th century BC. Citizens of the former State of Song commemorated the overthrow of their state in 286 BC by theState of Qi owned byTian, who began to use the character Song as their surname, which is the authentic branch.[2]
From theTaiping Guangji, The Duke Jing of Song assigned the surname Song to a savage, who was named Ziwei (子韦), in charge ofastronomy asFangshi, whose alias was Sixing (司星).
Emperor Huizong of Song's officer changed his name to Song, using the dynasty name as a family name, which was the imperial clan branch of theSong dynasty.[3]
Charlie Soong changed his family name fromHan to Soon, then Soong, which was one of the accepted English spellings of the dynasty nameSong, the dynasty from the tenth to the thirteenth century in China.[4][5]
There is a family clan originally located inPingyang calledDashila (答失剌) who have used this character since the Ming dynasty.[2]
Moreover, the surname branched off into a clan derived from an ancestor namedTemuer orTimur (帖木儿) with the grant of a seal who used the character sinceMing dynasty. From the history records, it may refer to Knight ofFenyang, who is the descendant ofGodan Khan.[2]
Brenda Song, b. 1988, 熊 (original surnameXiong (熊; Xyooj in Hmong), but changed their last name to Song when the family immigrated to the United States
^abZhang Jingshu (张静姝) (24 May 2019).宋绮云、徐林侠：革命伴侣共谱赞歌 [The Short but Brilliant Eight-Year Life of "Little Radish Head" Song Zhenzhong].Beijing News (in Chinese).China News Service. Archived fromthe original on 15 October 2024. Retrieved15 October 2024.
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