Origin 1: Originated in Shao Hao, with the city as the surname. Shao Hao is a descendant of the ancient river tribe and the leader of the ancient Dongyi nationality. As the son of Shao Hao, Gong Zheng was enfeoffed in Yin Cheng. As a descendant, he lived in the land of Guling Prefecture in his early days and got the name of Yun because of his place name. In ancient times, "Yun" and "Yin" were homonyms y m 4 n, and the surname of Yun was rewritten through official leave, which became the origin of the surname of Yin in later generations.

Origin 2: It originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the surname was officially obtained. According to the book "Customs and Righteousness", Jia, whose real name is Bojifu, once served as ZTE's ambassador, and his official position is internal history. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the civil history was also called "Yin of the Civil History" or "Yin of the Chinese Book", and the world called Bojifu "Yin Jifu". After Xi Bojifu died, his son Bofeng inherited the official position. After the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Bofeng followed Wang and obtained a fief named "Yi Yin" (now Xin 'an County, Henan Province), which belonged to the capital of the Zhou Dynasty. In 5 16 BC, Yin was defeated and perished, and China people took Yin as their surname.

Origin 3: from the sinicization of ethnic minorities. According to "A Brief History of Clans in Qing Dynasty", there are some sinicized Yin surnames in Mongolia, such as Borzijit, Yegulut and Yinzhai. Zhang Jiashi of Manchu Xibo nationality has been translated into Yin; Today, Bai, Miao, Zhuang and Korean all have Yin surnames. Yin surname originated in Henan, Shanxi and Shaanxi.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Yin family mainly distributed in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other places. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars came out of Wanfengyang (now in the east of Henan), and later generations moved to Hebei. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they developed into a big imperial clan, so Hejian County was established.

During the Han Dynasty, he traveled to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, and Yin developed into one of the most popular surnames in Guizhou (Long, Fu, Yin and Dong).

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Yin clan in Tianshui and Xizhou (now central and northwestern Gansu) became a local clan, and Yin people served in countries such as the former Qin Dynasty, the later Qin Dynasty, and Tianshui County was named after it.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the surname Yin had spread all over the country, and Hejian County of Jizhou also became the surname Yin County. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, appointed by the imperial court, he was stationed in Hengshan Mountain, Feng Hengshan Bo, and Yin was distributed in Hunan.

During the difficulty of Song Jingkang, the Yin family was awarded the title of Dongguan county magistrate for escorting the people to the south, which prompted the Yin clan group to move to Dongguan. Most of the Yin family in Hong Kong originated from this branch. At the end of the Song Dynasty, the northern gentry moved south in succession, and the Yin clan also moved to Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Jiangsu at this time.

At the end of Song Dynasty, the beginning of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Yin moved from Shandong and Shanxi to Anhui and Jiangxi, and then continued to move to Hunan and Hubei provinces.

At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Hunan and Hubei moved into Sichuan and Chongqing in large numbers. Another Shandong Yin Guan led a large number of officers and men with the same surname to Beijing to fight the Qing soldiers. After the defeat, some of them kept their surnames.

During the Hongwu and Yongle periods of the Ming Dynasty, the Yin clan migrated from Shanxi Dahuaishu and Jiangxi Wayaoxie to Henan, Hebei, Tianjin and other areas where the population dropped sharply due to war.

In the Qing Dynasty, a man named Yin crossed the sea into Taiwan and later lived overseas.