Hú Yín 胡寅 (1098–1156), zì Míngzhòng 明仲 per Sòng shǐ; per the WYG titling, zì Zhònghǔ 仲虎; per Lóu Yuè’s preface, zì Zhònggāng 仲剛 — i.e. 3 different zì are recorded for him in different sources. Native of Chóngān 崇安 (Fújiàn). Originally born to Hú Ānguó 胡安國’s brother; the brother had many sons and wished not to keep him; Hú Ānguó’s wife took and raised him; Hú Yín became Hú Ānguó’s adopted son.
Xuānhé 3 (1121) jìnshì jiǎkē. After the southward crossing, office to Huīyóugé zhíxuéshì. Opposed Qín Guì 秦檜; banished to Xīnzhōu. After Guì’s death (1155) restored to original office. Died Shàoxīng 21 (= 1151 — the Sìkù tíyào is in error; standard sources give 1156). Sòng shǐ j. 435 Rúlín zhuàn.
The Hú father-and-sons-and-brothers (Hú Ānguó, Hú Yín, Hú Hóng 胡宏 = brother) all firmly transmitted Chéng (= Chéng Yí) learning. Hú Yín was particularly known for qìjié (resolute-integrity).
The Sìkù tíyào of KR4d0198 discusses Hú Yín’s controversial late-life affair: Yòu zhèngyán Zhāng Fù 章復 impeached him for not-mourning his birth-mother (Hú Yín had been adopted out as an infant, and on his birth-mother’s death claimed yíqì zhī zǐ — “the abandoned son” — exempted from mourning). The Sìkù editors take a sharper view than Hú: the parent-child tiānshǔ (heaven-belonging) bond — even broken by adoption — cannot be severed by yì (rationale); Zhāng Fù’s impeachment, even if politically-motivated by Qín Guì, was not without principle.
CBDB id 1063 confirms 1098–1156.
His collection survives as Fěirán jí 斐然集 KR4d0198 in 30 juǎn (1234 Féng Bāngzuǒ Sìchuān cut, with Lóu Yuè preface; 1210 Zhèng Zhàozhī Húnán cut, with Zhāng Yǐng preface). Hú is also the author of the Chóngzhèng biàn 崇正辨 in 3 juǎn (anti-Buddhist treatise). The Sìkù tíyào notes a self-contradiction: Hú’s anti-Buddhist Chóngzhèng biàn and his memorial against the Zīshàntáng Buddha-image are noble; yet the closing juǎn of Fěirán jí contains 6 Buddhist temple-opening shū (proclamations), which the editors consider a self-undermining inconsistency.