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Song of the White Hair

Song of the White Hair (Baitou yin) is a Han dynasty yuefu ballad in a woman's voice, traditionally attributed to Zhuo Wenjun and known for its devoted-heart couplet.

Song of Ullikummi

The Song of Ullikummi is a Hittite mythological text, part of the Kumarbi cycle, telling how Kumarbi fathers a stone monster to destroy the Storm-God Teshub.

Song of Weicheng

Song of Weicheng, also known as Song Yuan Er shi Anxi, is a four-line Tang dynasty quatrain by Wang Wei, written as a farewell to a friend departing for the Anxi Protectorate.

Song of Youth (玉楼春)

Song of Youth (玉楼春) is a 2021 Chinese 43-episode costume light comedy on Youku, produced and written by Yu Zheng, starring Bai Lu and Wang Yizhe, set in the Ming Longqing era, with a Douban score of 4.7.

Song Penal Code (Song Xingtong)

The Song Penal Code (宋刑統) is the fundamental penal code of China's Song dynasty, compiled in 963 under Emperor Taizu and the first block-printed law code in Chinese history.

Song picturisation

Song picturisation is the Indian film-industry term for the on-screen staging of a film song: the song is recorded in a studio first, and visuals are filmed afterwards.

Song purchase of Yan (Yanshan prefectures)

The Song purchase of Yan (宣和收复燕京) was the 1123 transfer of Yanjing and six prefectures from the Jin dynasty to the Northern Song, bought after two failed sieges.

Song Qi

Song Qi (宋祁, 998–1061) was a Northern Song statesman, historian, and writer who compiled the biographies of the New History of the Tang from 1044 to 1060.

Song Qiaonian

Song Qiaonian (宋乔年, 1047 to 1113) was a Song dynasty official, grandson of the chancellor Song Xiang, who served as fiscal commissioner and governor of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Song Qing

Song Qing (宋庆, 1820–1902) was a Qing dynasty general who rose from household servant to army commander, founded the Yi Army, and fought the Nian rebels and Japan.

Song Qiqiu

Song Qiqiu (宋齐丘, 887–959) was a statesman and strategist of the Wu and Southern Tang states, chief planner of Li Bian's usurpation of the Wu throne.

Song Seok Wu

Song Seok Wu (송석우, also Song Seok-U), born 1983, South Korean short track speed skater; 2006 Turin Olympic gold in the men's relay and multiple world championship medals.

Song Seung Jun

Song Seung Jun (송승준), South Korean baseball player born 1980 in Busan, Lotte Giants affiliate; won gold with Korea in the men's baseball tournament at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not the footballer or actor of similar name.

Song Seung-heon (송승헌)

Song Seung-heon (송승헌, real name Song Seung-bok, born 1976) is a South Korean actor who debuted as a STORM model in 1995, starred in Autumn in my Heart and East of Eden, and won the 2008 MBC Daesang and a 2014 Blue Dragon Popularity Award.

Song Shi

Song Shi (宋史) is the official dynastic history of the Song dynasty (960–1279), compiled at the Yuan court and completed in 1345 under Toqto'a.

Song Shu Pin Pin

Song Shu Pin Pin (松鼠拼拼) was a Beijing-based community group-buying platform for low-price fresh food, founded by Meituan co-founder Yang Jun in 2018 and collapsed in 2019.

Song Si-yeol

Song Si-yeol (송시열, 1607–1689) was a Neo-Confucian scholar and official of Korea's Joseon dynasty who led the Western faction and its Noron branch, serving as royal tutor and Left State Councillor before his execution in 1689.

Song structure

Song structure (song form): the arrangement of verses, choruses, prechoruses, and bridges in popular music. AABA/32-bar form dominated 1920s–1960s Tin Pan Alley; verse-chorus form overtook it in the late 1960s; streaming-era pop compresses sections.

Song Sun

Song Sun (孙崧, born 1987) is a Chinese mathematician in complex differential geometry who, with Xiuxiong Chen and Simon Donaldson, proved K-stable Fano manifolds admit Kähler–Einstein metrics, resolving Yau's conjecture.

Song Sung Blue (2008 film)

Song Sung Blue (2008) is Greg Kohs' Slamdance-winning documentary about Milwaukee Neil Diamond tribute duo Lightning & Thunder, Mike and Claire Sardina, later adapted into Craig Brewer's 2025 feature with Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson.

Song Sung Blue (2025 film)

Song Sung Blue (2025) is a Craig Brewer drama starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, whose Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning and Thunder is dramatized from Greg Kohs' 2008 documentary.

Song thất lục bát

Song thất lục bát, also called lục bát gián thất, is a traditional Vietnamese verse form of 7-7-6-8 syllable quatrains, created in the 15th–16th centuries.

Song thrush

Song thrush (Turdus philomelos), a Eurasian woodland and garden songbird known for repeating song phrases and smashing snails on anvils; UK population down 45% since 1967 but recovering recently.

Song to Song

Song to Song is Terrence Malick's 2017 romantic drama set in the Austin, Texas music scene, starring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, and Natalie Portman; it premiered at SXSW, grossed about $1.8 million worldwide, and holds a 43% Rotten Tomatoes score.

Song Wan

Song Wan (宋琬, 1614–1673) was a Chinese poet and official from Laiyang, Shandong, in the early Qing dynasty, paired with Shi Runzhang as "Southern Shi, Northern Song".

Song Wei

Song Wei (宋伟) is a Chinese beverage entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Zhejiang Youxianggu in Changshan, Zhejiang, known for creating Song You Juice, a dual-pomelo drink that grew to 1 billion yuan in sales by 2024.

Song Weicong

Song Weicong (宋维聪), born in 1955, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur who spent thirteen years at Applied Materials before founding Betone, a Shanghai thin-film deposition equipment maker, in 2008.

Song Weilong (宋威龙) (actor)

Song Weilong (宋威龙) is a mainland Chinese actor and model born in 1999 in Dalian, Liaoning, who became a leading man with the 2020 dramas Find Yourself and Go Ahead.

Song Weiping

Song Weiping (宋卫平, born 1958) is a Chinese property developer who co-founded Greentown China, a Hangzhou-based builder of luxury homes, in 1995 and led it until 2019.

Song Xiang

Song Xiang (宋湘), 1756 or 1757 to 1826, was a Qing dynasty Hakka poet, calligrapher, and official from Jiaying, Guangdong, honored as the "First Scholar of Lingnan."