The origin of song dynasty

1, from the son's surname to the country's surname. In Zhou Chengwang, after Zhou Gongdan put down the Wu Geng and Sanjian Rebellion in the Yin Dynasty, Wei Ziqi was established in Shangqiu, the birthplace of Shang Dynasty, and the Song State was established. He was named Qi Huangong and honored as one of the "Three Curses" to worship Shang Dynasty. By the time he arrived in Song Xianggong, Song had become the leader of the world governors and one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. In the 21st year of Qin Xiang (286 BC), the State of Qi destroyed the Song Dynasty, and the descendants took the State as their surname. The source of this branch is the authentic Song surname, which accounts for the vast majority of the population of Song surname.

2, from the surname Ji, with the ancestral name as the surname. Song Ji, Zi Gong, also known as Song Gongzi, was a famous doctor of Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period. Some of his descendants took their ancestors' names as surnames, which were called the Song family.

Contemporary Song surname is the 22nd most popular surname. Celebrities: Soong Ching Ling, Song Meiling, Song Chunfang and James Soong.

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During the Song Dynasty, there were about 880,000 Song surnames, accounting for 1. 1% of the total population of China, ranking 16. Shaanxi is the largest province with the surname of Song, accounting for 19.4% of the total population of Song. 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 Song surnames, followed by Shanxi, Zhejiang and Shandong, and the Song surnames in these three provinces are concentrated in 16%. China has formed two population gathering areas of the Song family centered on Qinchuan, Hebei and Henan, and the Song family mainly lives in the northern region.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 540,000 Song surnames, accounting for 0.57% of the total population of China, ranking 37th. Shandong is the largest province of Song surname, accounting for 17. 1% of the total population of Song surname. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, and the surname of Song accounts for about 46% of the total population, followed by Shanxi, Jiangsu and Hebei, with a population of 25%. Its population mainly moves from north to east, southeast and south.

During the 600 years of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the net population growth rate in China was 20%, while the population growth in Song Dynasty was negative. In the face of war and massacre, the victims were mainly in the north, and the surname of Song was the surname of the north, which caused heavy losses. China has re-formed two major areas where the population of Song surname is concentrated: Luji, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

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