Modern scholars stated that Song Jingyang was a Han Chinese, Bouyei or Miao.

In 1382, She Xiang decided to rebelled against Ming China because she was tortured by the Chinese general Ma Ye (馬曄).

[4] The Shuidong ruler Song Cheng'en (宋承恩) was a son-in-law of Bozhou chief Yang Yinglong (楊應龍).

[5] When Yang rebelled against Ming China, Song Cheng'en refused to joint the rebellion.

[6] The Shuidong ruler Song Wanhua (宋萬化) joint the She-An Rebellion, he was captured and executed in 1623.

In the same year, Shuidong was fully annexed into the central bureaucratic system of the Ming dynasty.