Yin / Yin
Yin (銀) is a relatively rare surname found in Beijing, Wuqing in Tianjin, Shangyi in Hebei, Dongping in Shandong, Wuhai in Inner Mongolia, Taiyuan in Shanxi, Zhijiang in Hunan, Gaoyao in Guangdong, Tianlin in Guangxi, Longchuan in Yunnan, Hejiang in Sichuan, and other places. It is borne among Han, Manchu, Miao, Zhuang, Dong, Yi, Lisu, Mulam, and other ethnic groups.
The Yin surname has multiple origins: Yin Mu existed in the Han dynasty, though his origin is unknown; the Yin surname in Guangxi is recorded as descending from Yinzhu ke of the Jin dynasty and may have changed from the compound surname Jinyin; a branch in Wugang, Hunan, is recorded as having migrated from Jiangnan during the Tang-Song period.
The Yin surname is included in the Clan Records sections of the Xu Tongzhi and Qing Tongzhi. Recorded historical figures include Yin Mu, a Han-dynasty military officer; Yin Song, a Ming-dynasty prefect of Gucheng; Yin Jing, a magistrate of Jize; and Yin Wenzhao, a jinshi who passed the examination in the gengchen year of the Qianlong reign.
Against a background of warfare and flight from danger, the branch associated with Jinyin Shuke migrated north and south. The northern branch passed through Xinxiang and Jiaozuo in Henan into Shanxi; the southern branch passed through Hubei, Jiangxi, and Hunan into Luocheng in Guangxi. Guangxi Yin families were concentrated in Luocheng and later spread to Rongshui, Liucheng, Xiangzhou, Wuxuan, Liujiang, Yizhou, Du'an, Lingui, Longsheng, and other places.
The Luocheng, Guangxi, Yin generation poem begins “Wenzhang Heng Daofa, Zhi Da Cui Enting; Ji Pei Ru Liangyu, An Dun Ying Jingxing ...”; the Shaoyang, Hunan, Yin generation poem begins “Cai Zhong Ke Xunli, Zhi Xin Ting Zushi, Ying You Shi Fengtai ...”.
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