Liáng Yín 梁寅 (1303–1389), zì Mèngjìng 孟敬, was a late-Yuán / early-Míng Confucian scholar from Xīnyú 新喻 (Yuánzhōu 袁州, modern Jiāngxī 江西). At the close of the Yuán he was appointed instructor in the Confucian school of the Jíqìng 集慶 circuit, but declined the posting on grounds of his parents’ age. The following year, with the late-Yuán uprisings under way, he withdrew from public life and taught at home. At the founding of the Míng he was summoned to assist with the compilation of ritual and music writings (the early-Hóngwǔ ritual reform); when the Míng court attempted to confer office on him at the close of that work, he again declined on grounds of illness and returned to Xīnyú, where he built a house at Mount Shímén 石門山 and was known to his pupils as “Liáng of the Five Classics” (Liáng Wǔjīng 梁五經).
His writings cover the major classics: the Shī yǎnyì 詩演義 (KR1c0040 if extant in Kanripo), Shū yǎnyì 書演義, Zhōulǐ kǎozhù 周禮考註, Chūnqiū kǎoyì 春秋考義, and the Zhōuyì cān yì 周易參義 (KR1a0089) treated here. The Cān yì was completed in zhì yuán 至元 6 = 1340 (Liáng’s late thirties), although his ongoing teaching extended its currency far beyond that point.