Refers to the major Chinese dynasty founded by Zhao Kuangyin. Often called 北宋 (Northern Song) and 南宋 (Southern Song) to distinguish periods.
During the Song dynasty, ceramics greatly developed in China.
Liu Song dynasty (420-479)
A shorter-lived southern Chinese dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period. Also called 劉宋 to distinguish from the later Song.
Song (ancient state, 11th c.–286 BCE)
An ancient Chinese state during the Zhou dynasty, located in present-day Henan. Not to be confused with the later dynasties.
The Liu Song was one of the Southern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period.
Song was one of the states that existed during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
travel to Song China
Song poetry; Song ci
Song dynasty copper coin
Song reading; sō-on
Song-Ming neo-Confucianism
Standard kanji spelling for the historical Chinese dynasty and state.
From Chinese 宋 (Sòng), the name of the historical state and later dynasties. The Japanese reading そう is the on'yomi.