Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Scholar

Liu Yin 劉寅

Liú Yín

Attested AD 420 - AD 479

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Yin was an official and Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 420 to AD 479 虞通劉寅因荀氏之作
Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 16, passage 11

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 16, passage 11

References in the histories

Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 16Volume 16 Treatises 8: Official Posts · 1 passage

肇域官品，區別階資，蔚宗選簿梗概，欽明階次詳悉，虞通、劉寅因荀氏之作，矯舊增新，今古相校。 When the hierarchy was first drawn, grades and ranks were sorted apart: Fan Ye's register sketches the frame, the Qinming text fills the ladder; Yu Tong and Liu Yin, following the Xun family's books, bent the old into the new—ancient and present set side by side.