The first source of the child's surname.Late shang dynasty, | business Wang Wuding son son in | song song, fief in now hebei zhao country north, earl principality.Ji fa shang completely, also destroyed and dealer Wang Tongxing song kingdom.Zhou Cheng king, the duke of zhou pacify YanHouWu heptyl and three prison after the rebellion, the ancient land of song kingdom closure with the son and grandson of collection, as Song Gong, to serve shang si.Micro son qi for the emperor's b ordinary eldest son, brother of shang king zhou, in pacify YanHouWu heptyl and three prison rebellion neutral difference.Song Gong collection Ding Gongshen of succession, the son of the song kingdom flying Thomson pastly shangqiu, but even in henan shangqiu.Duke xiang of song, the song has become the world champions of governors, one of the spring and autumn period and the five powers.Sites to song male, song kingdom decline and moving east in Peng Cheng, namely jiangsu xuzhou today.By 286 BC, the qi song, hence for the surname.Business Wang Wuding seal since the song dynasty, the origin of the name of the song son at least 3200 years history, the destroyed after the widespread use of the song of the time there are nearly 2300 years.

The second source outside the han nationality of the surname.Before the tang dynasty, the source of the song have been more pure, until the five dynasties have more sources of the han, the fifth generation YuanLing in western hunan state pretty Monsieur beaucaire soong, the northern song dynasty in the northwest of xixia kingdom of their song, the qing dynasty when the manchu eight banners all the surname song named song jia clan later of song of the three are from ethnic minorities.Since the tang and song dynasty, the foreign national to join and assimilation, the family became large.

Shells period of oracle bone characters, the existing "song".From word structure perspective, "song" historically nothing too big change."Treasure", oracle medium such as the top of the house, as a precious.Such as "treasure", also is a little change since ancient times, literally "the precious jade, yue bao".While the song word meaning as the precious wood, also yue shenmu.