Wu Yin (1867-1922), modern seal engraver and cultural entrepreneur. One of the founders of hangzhou Xiling Printing Society, the "world's first society". Originally named Jin Pei, the word Shi Quan, Shi Qian, the number of the spring, also known as the Xuan, now known as the Recluse. Zhai is called 纂籀簃, Shochikdo. People from Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
Poor family, kehang, Xi engraving tablets, good at engraving, and the six books are very diligent. Seal engraving model Han Zong Zhejiang (pie). Bookish seal, subordinate. Good at making printing clay, meticulously developing the "Qianquan Printing Clay", and then operating calligraphy and painting seal engraving supplies in Shanghai, sorting out the printing spectrum printing theory, successively printing bronze, ancient bricks, ancient pottery, ancient springs and other printing deposits, and compiling 25 kinds of "Yinhui Printing" series of books, "Yinhui" 152 volumes, etc. In addition, buildings such as The Lotus Pavilion and the Simple Jinglu were built at the site.
Because of family difficulties, when he was more than ten years old, Wu Yin could not learn the inscription from a stele engraving shop in Hangzhou, and gradually became a famous inscriptionist of the Zhejiang school. According to data analysis, before 1903 AD, Wu Yin was mainly engaged in carving monuments, and in his later years (51 years old), he also engraved the "Gefu Junjia Heirloom Monument", so the inscription occupation ended Wu Yin's life. Wu Yin's success in entering the cultural circles of Hangzhou and Shanghai as an apprentice in an inscription shop is not unrelated to his interest preferences. When he was studying the tablets in Hangzhou, Wu Yin and Ye Ming, who would later be the same "Founding Society Four Yings" of the Xiling Printing Society, went to and from the door of Dai Yongbai, the son of the Qing Soldier Department attendant and landscape painter Dai Xi, to learn ancient texts and gold stone seal carvings.
Wu Yin liked to buy ancient books, collect all kinds of gold and stone extensions for his own study, and when he had good books, he also showed them to the famous bibliophile Miao Quansun, who was known as the "Four Great Talents of the Late Qing Dynasty and the Beginning of the People", and asked him to evaluate the books. At the age of 20, Wu Yin once wrote a poem to record his experiences and thoughts at that time: "Dare to wait for the years to idle, and break the broken monument to a room." Jin Shi can portray the subject, with his sword pen Han Xiao He. Wu Changshuo, who "befriended the four absolute poems, books, paintings and prints" of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, was Wu Yin's greatest life opportunity, and the two had a deep friendship with the same sect, and Wu Changshuo provided a lot of help for Wu Yin's development. When Wu Yin began to engrave, he followed some of the styles of the Zhejiang school, and the future "blunt knife center method" was personally taught by Mr. Wu Changshuo, and since then the printing style has changed greatly. After Wu Changshuo moved to Shanghai, Wu Yin also gradually developed into Shanghai, and successively participated in the Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Research Association and the Maritime Inscription Hall together with Wu Changshuo, of which the Maritime Inscription Pavilion was chaired by Wu Changshuo. At the inaugural meeting of the Xiling Printing Society in 1913, Wu Yin strongly recommended Wu Changshuo as the first president of the Xiling Printing Society.
In the summer of the Guangxu Jiachen year (1904), Ding Ren, Wang Zhen, Ye Ming, and Wu Yin, with the aim of "preserving the golden stone and studying printing", initiated and founded the Xiling Printing Society in the Isolated Mountain of Hangzhou's West Lake, and posterity called them the "Founding Society Four Yings" of the Xiling Printing Society. As one of the four founders of Xiling Printing Society, Wu Yin is undoubtedly the most dynamic figure in the early days of the establishment of the Printing Society.
In terms of operation, Wu Yin is undoubtedly the most outstanding among the "Four Yings of the Founding Society". He was good at capturing business opportunities, and obviously had the characteristics of a literati, xiling printing society gave him an excellent platform for development, so Wu Yin rose from an inscriptionist to a well-known cultural industrialist in the late Qing dynasty and early Min, and the qianquan printing clay and its printing notation, calligraphy and painting publishing are still loved by cultural people.
Originally, Mr. and Mrs. Wu Yin had made their own printing clay for their own use and to give away. Wu Changshuo was very appreciative of the printing clay he made, so he encouraged Wu Yin to set up a printing clay-making enterprise, which used the name of Xiling Printing Society, and the Shanghai Xiling Printing Society, founded by Wu Privacy, was born. Wu Changshuo personally wrote a signboard for this enterprise, and chose a deep rose red hue, and gave it a good name of "beautiful sand printing mud". In order to expand the influence of the printing clay, Wu Changshuo also lent his own seal to Wu Yin, and Wu Yin thus became wu Changshuo's four volumes of "Seal of The Silk Lu" and published it. Later, Wu Changshuo also edited his calligraphy and paintings by Wu Yin into four volumes of a letter "Bitter Iron And Broken Gold", which was published by The Shanghai Xiling Printing Society. Wu Yin is humble. In the ten years since the founding of the society, he often exchanged voices with Ye Ming in Hangzhou and Shanghai for the establishment of the society, and often led the dealings with the outside world, during which he donated the most. Later generations commented that in the ten years since the founding of the society, Wu Yin has "carried out the responsibility of the president without the name of the president." Ten years later, when the first president was being conceived, Wu Yin did not take credit and strongly recommended Wu Changshuo. After that, Wu Yin, as always, dedicated himself to the community, did not hesitate to treat private property as public property, bought land to build a number of cultural landscape buildings in the Xiling Printing Society, and also contacted family relatives who were not members to jointly build the Xiling Printing Society. Its humble wind and hidden virtue are admirable.