Early descriptions of the production process and glazing techniques used for bricks can be found in the Song Dynasty carpenter's manual Yingzao Fashi, published in 1103 by the government official Li Jie, who was put in charge of overseeing public works for the central government's construction agency.

The Yuan and Qing Dynasties, which might be thought " foreign " as their imperial families were not of the Han people, faithfully carried out the tradition, writing the official histories of Han-ruled Song and Ming Dynasties respectively.

An example of such would be Qian Xuan ( 1235 – 1305 AD ), who was an official of the Song Dynasty, but out of patriotism, refused to serve the Yuan court and dedicated himself to painting.

However, China's first official standing navy was not established until the Southern Song Dynasty in the 12th century, a time when gunpowder was a revolutionary new application to warfare.

One from the Heart received its official theatrical release in 1982, with Waits appearing in a cameo as a trumpet player as well as receiving an Oscar nomination for Original Song Score ( eventually losing out to Victor Victoria, by Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse ).

When the government official Dan Song proposed the Chinese calendar should be reformed in 123 to adopt certain apocryphal teachings, Zhang opposed the idea.

* 1043: the Song Dynasty Chancellor of China, Fan Zhongyan, and prominent official and historian Ouyang Xiu introduce the Qingli Reforms, which would be rescinded by the court in 1045 due to partisan resistance to reforms.

* 1075: Chinese official and diplomat Shen Kuo asserts the Song Dynasty's rightful border lines by using court archives against the bold bluff of Emperor Daozong of Liao, who had asserted that Liao Dynasty territory exceeded its earlier-accepted bounds.

* 1077: Chinese official Su Song is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Liao Dynasty and discovers that the Khitan calendar is more mathematically accurate than the Song calendar ; Emperor Zhezong later sponsors Su Song's astronomical clock tower in order to compete with Liao astronomers.

* 1094: the astronomical clock tower of Kaifeng, China — engineered by the official Su Song — is completed.

* 1098: the Dongpo Academy of Hainan, China is built in honor of the Song Dynasty Chinese official and poet Su Shi, who was exiled there for criticizing reforms of the New Policies Group.

* 1070 – With a team of scholars, the Chinese official Su Song also published the Ben Cao Tu Jing in 1070, a treatise on pharmacology, botany, zoology, metallurgy, and mineralogy.

* Wang Hong, official of the Liu Song Dynasty ( b. 379 )

* Fu Liang, official of the Liu Song Dynasty ( b. 374 )

* Xu Xianzhi, official of the Liu Song Dynasty ( b. 364 )

* Wang Jian, official of Liu Song and Southern Qi ( d. 489 )

* Wang Jian, official of Liu Song and Southern Qi ( b. 452 )

* Liu Bing, high official of the Liu Song Dynasty ( b. 433 )

* Yuan Can, high official of the Liu Song Dynasty ( b. 420 )

* The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.

* Wang Hong, high official of the Liu Song Dynasty ( d. 432 )

* January – March – In Song Dynasty China, scholars and farmers demonstrate around Kaifeng for the restoration of a probity military official, Li Gang ( 李綱 ).

* While engaged in a war with the Mongols, the Song Chinese official Li Zengbo writes in his Kozhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou is manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased gunpowder bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.

* Fu Liang, official of the Liu Song Dynasty ( d. 426 )

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After his call-up, but before being sent abroad, he and fellow musician Harry Edgington ( nicknamed Edge-ying-Tong which gave birth to one of Milligan's most memorable musical creations, the Ying Tong Song ) would compose surreal stories, filled with puns and skewed logic, as a way of staving off the boredom of life in barracks.

* The Guanfuchang salt-fields ( 官富場 ) in Hong Kong, nowadays To Kwa Wan, Kowloon Bay, Kwun Tong and Lam Tin districts, are first officially operated by the Song Dynasty.

* Wen Tong, Chinese Northern Song painter famous for his ink bamboo paintings ( d. 1079 )

* Zhou Tong, archery teacher and second military arts tutor of famous Song Dynasty General Yue Fei

Sheng's queen took revenge and poisoned 1, 000 Bhutia people at a place now called Tong Song Fong, meaning " where a thousand were murdered ".

Wen Tong () ( 1019 – 1079 ) was a Northern Song painter born in Sichuan famous for his ink bamboo paintings.

Song Jiang maintains a close friendship with the constables Zhu Tong and Lei Heng who serve in the same county office as he.

Around the new year 733, Emperor Xuanzong removed then-chancellors Xiao Song and Han Xiu from their chancellor positions, and named Pei Yaoqing and Zhang to replace them — ordering Zhang to end his period of mourning, which was to last for three years, early, making him Zhongshu Shilang but with the chancellor de facto designation of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhanshi ( 同中書門下平章事 ).

* December 30-Ah Hoon, a comedian and member of the On Leong Tong, is killed in his home by rival Hip Song members.

As a youth, Ji Cheng made a name for himself as a landscape painter and private garden designer, he worshipped two North Song painters: Guan Tong ( 关仝 ) and Jing Hao ( 荆浩 )

During the Ming Dynasty, Daoist Priest Deng Kun Lun () is fabled to have learned the set and later published a book in 1426 called Dà Sòng Quān Nèi Dì Yī Gāo Shǒu Zhōu Tóng Zhēn Chuán Hǔ Xiào Jīn Zhōng Zhào Fú Qì Liàn Xíng Mì Shù (-“ Great Song Circle Internal Sequence First Master Zhou Tong True Line Tiger Shouting Golden Bell Exercise Build Secret Technique ”).

When Zhou Tong saw Wu Song approaching him on the bridge without watching in front of him, he took Wu to be another martial arts master who wished to tarnish his reputation by throwing him off the bridge with a shoulder strike.

Instead of cursing and reprimanding the old man, Wu Song held his tongue, which greatly impressed Zhou Tong.

After Zhou Tong disappeared into the bustling crowd, Wu Song rubbed his shoulder and returned to his inn.

When he twirled around and ended up facing in his direction, Wu Song recognized Zhou Tong as the old man he had bumped into on the bridge earlier in the day.

Wu Song felt sorry for Zhou Tong because he thought maybe the man was too old to practice the martial arts and had lost his balance.

After watching him land and perform a few punches and kicks, it finally dawned on Wu Song that Zhou Tong was indeed practicing the boxing routines of the immortals Iron-Crutch Li and Han Xiang from the Drunken Eight Immortals style.

Zhou Tong invited Wu Song over the wall to partake in the festivities.

When Zhou Tong asked for his name, he was delighted to learn Wu Song was the same fellow who became famous for killing a man-eating tiger with his bare hands on Jingyang Ridge in Shandong in the previous year.

When Wu Song learned who Zhou Tong was, he immediately dropped to his knees, kowtowed and pleaded to become his student.