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Throughout the ancient China the Song Dynasty was a key point in the development of silk culture. Influenced by ideology culture commerce art and technology at that time silk weaving technology and artistic aesthetics reached a new height laying an important foundation for the development of silk for the later generations. In 2021 Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed the implementation of 'Extant Project of Song Culture aiming to build famous Hangzhou brands and cultural business card of Zhejiang. As one of the important material carriers of Song culture silk reflects the superb technical level of textile and silk-making ability of the Song Dynasty. At the same time various decorative patterns on silk have become an important research object of 'Extant Project of Song Culture as they reflect people's profound understanding of life and art in the Song Dynasty. At present studies on silk ornaments in the Song Dynasty have started and most of them focus on the historical evolution modeling structure and other aspects from the perspective of design studies and sociology. To promote the spread of the silk culture of the Song Dynasty worldwide and enhance the influence and popularity of the excellent traditional Chinese culture this paper takes the representative silk patterns of the Song Dynasty as the research object adopting methods of literature research case study experience summary and other research methods. Meanwhile integrating with disciplines of history foreign languages and literature it interprets the connotation and meaning of the silk pattern and carries out foreign translation practice. The research shows that there are three types of name sources of silk patterns in the Song Dynasty. According to the literal meaning the first type named by modern archaeologists is generally composed of the name of the main object and that of the structure with explicit expressive content. The second type originated from the Song Dynasty and passed down to the present can be found in historical books and classics. This kind of name mainly describes silk patterns with similar shapes under the guise of real objects such as patterns of ailanthus and cattail leaf and persimmon calyx patterns. The third type also originated from the Song Dynasty showing the characteristics of scene story image etc. The literal meaning is often different from its actual meaning. If translators translate the names literally the readers will not understand the true meaning. Therefore only by resonating with Chinese traditional culture can translators accurately grasp the core meaning of silk patterns in the Song Dynasty. Aiming at the three types of names for ornaments translators need to flexibly adopt literal translation free translation or additional annotations to implement the foreign translation plan of interconnecting Chinese and foreign contexts and to actively promote the effective transmission of the silk culture in the Song Dynasty on the world stage so that people around the world can feel the extensive and profound Chinese traditional culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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