Tang Yin was born in a merchant's family, and his status was relatively low. Under the leadership of "making a name for himself", he studied hard, and at the age of 11, he was excellent in literary talent and wrote a good hand. At the age of 16, Zhong Xiucai took the Yingtian Township Examination in Nanjing at the age of 29 and won the first prize of "Xieyuan". The following year, he went to Beijing to take the exam, and "fame and wealth" was just around the corner. Xu Jing, a big landlord in Jiangyin, who was rushing to take the exam with him, secretly bribed the examiner's family and got the exam questions in advance. When the story came to light, Tang Yin was also implicated in prison and tortured and humiliated. Since then, Tang Yin, who is conceited, has had a strong antipathy to the "perversion" of officialdom. Character and behavior are unrestrained. Tang Yin made friends with fellow countryman "Crazy Life" Zhang Ling, and indulged in drinking regardless of various careers. Only after being persuaded by his good friend Zhu Yunming did he study hard and decided to spend his life with poetry, calligraphy and painting. After that, he traveled to Zhu Rong, Kuanglu, Tiantai and Wuyi famous mountains, and rowed in Dongting Lake and Peng Stupid, and then returned to Suzhou. In his later years, he believed in Buddhism, and he lived in the land since June 1. He once wrote a poem blaming himself, saying that although a gentleman is not famous, he should be generous, so why bother to be a prisoner? So he carved the seal of "the first romantic genius in Jiangnan". After being hired by Chen Hao, Ning Wang of Nanchang, he found that Ning Wang had an anti-intention, so he pretended to be crazy and returned to Suzhou. Since then, he has been bohemian and decadent.

Tang Yin is wild and uninhibited, but he is unique in painting. His brushwork is exquisite and meticulous, with a natural and unrestrained charm. Most of his landscape paintings show majestic and steep mountains and mountains, pavilions and bridges, beautiful scenery of the mountains and rivers all the time, and some describe pavilions and gardens and the leisurely life of literati. Landscape figure painting is magnificent, slightly clear and chic, with rich and diverse themes. Figure painting mostly describes the life and historical stories of ancient and modern ladies.