In Strange Tales from Liaozhai: The Foxes’ Wedding, the protagonist “Lord Yin” lacks explicit historical documentation. However, according to Yin Guanghe (18th-generation descendant of Yin Shidan), Pu Songling’s character refers precisely to this Ming Dynasty figure, Yin Shidan.
Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio’s “The Fox’s Daughter Wedding” recounts the journey of Yin, an impoverished scholar from Licheng, Shandong, famed for his audacity.