Song Yonghong's painting style is characteristic of individuality and purity, he expresses his extremely pure personal appreciation with seemingly fabulous, ridiculous images. Song reveals completely a dilemma of the era that is oriented towards "opening of privacy" by the stiffen, numb visual image of prier and the pried as well as unavoidable sensory stimulations. Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts staged his personal show "Desire Square" in February~March 2008, extending all his achievements in arts. In terms of time, the exhibited works consist of three stages: "cynical realism" in 1990s; "Bath of Consolation" series in about 2005; and the return to the illustration of the "scenario" after that period.

Song Yonghong only describes figures and scenes that trigger his feeling and connect to his experience of his existence. "I like things material and tangible and I'm willing to illustrate clear experience. This kind of clearness is not for description, but for delivery of a kind of feeling. The reason is that what we see when we wake up every day is image other than those imageless. I am confident that the intuitive things can excite you." All his artworks are surreal or even unreal and untrue. Every image is cliff-hanging and intriguing plus his unique angle of view. In "Playing till Toes", the image presents a most complete figure – a passing dark dog. A woman's body is covered by woods. Street lamps are shining with dazzling, misted ivory white. The blue water, absolutely as the background, is like the begin of a detective play, cold, depressive, ridiculous, and non-sense. However, it never turns too scary or even deprived of humanity. He strengthens face of the figures and the monotonousness of actions by simple sketch, adding to the irritancy and a sense of panic to the image.