Their father is Song Jiashu, 宋嘉澍（1861年10月17日—1918年5月4日），also known as Song Yaoru, 宋耀如。His Christian name is Charles Jones Soong. People like to call him Charlie Soong. Soong or Song is not his original surname. His original name was Han Jiaohuai, 韩教准. He changed his surname after his maternal uncle adopted him as son. He was the 29th generation descendent of the prime minister of Northern Song dynasty, Han Qi 韩琦 (1008—1075).

He went to Boston, later North Carolina in 1877. Baptized in 1880, received his degree in theology and later became a priest. In 1886, he returned to Shanghai and preached at South Methodist Episcopal Church. He had secretly been initiated into Shanghai, Shenzhen and Canton’s thriving revolutionary movement, more specifically an organization that went by the name of Hung P’ang, or the Red gang. This organization had its roots in the movements to reinstate the Ming dynasty in the latter part of the 17th century, but had since transformed into a republican revolutionary force.

In 1894, Charlie Soong met Sun Yat-sen at a Sunday service in a Methodist church in Shanghai. The two men were kindred spirits of sorts, sharing their western education, Hakka ancestry, the Christian faith and a burning ambition and craving for change in China. Perhaps most importantly, they were both members of entwined anti-Qing triads.

Not sure whether intentional or with any motive, he had a daughter married to the political leader of China, a daughter married to the military leader of China and a daughter married to the financial leader of China. All bao ka liao. Not sure what was he up to. Maybe he wanted to own China. I wonder whether he was a Freemason.