Yin Li 殷禮

Gu Shao became Administrator of Yuzhang at the age of twenty-seven; he had junior clerks of good quality pursue learning and promoted those who advanced first. Earlier, Ding Xu of Qiantang had come from the ranks of corvée laborers and Zhang Bing of Yangxian had been born a commoner, while Wu Can of Wucheng and Yin Li of Yunyang had risen from humble origins; Gu Shao singled them all out, made them his friends and established their reputations. Later Ding Xu rose to Gentleman of the Household in Charge of the Army, Zhang Bing became Administrator of Yunyang, Yin Li Administrator of Lingling, and Wu Can Junior Tutor to the Crown Prince. The world held that Gu Shao knew how to judge men. Records, Wu 7 §37–39

Zhang Wen went to Shu as an envoy with the rank of General of the Household Who Supports Righteousness; Sun Quan secretly resented Zhang Wen's praise of the government of Shu and disliked his reputation being too great, and when the affair of Ji Yan arose, he used it as an occasion to condemn Zhang Wen. Sun Quan issued an order listing Zhang Wen's offenses, saying that Yin Li had originally been summoned for divination by signs, yet Zhang Wen had asked again and again to take him along to Shu, extolled him in a foreign state and spread talk on his behalf. He also said that on his return Yin Li ought to have gone back to his own post, but had instead been made acting Gentleman of the Census Section of the Masters of Writing, and that such an arrangement came from Zhang Wen alone. Zhang Wen was banished to his home commandery. Records, Wu 12 §26 · 30 · 32 · 34–35

The general Luo Tong defended Zhang Wen in a memorial, saying that Zhang Wen's joining in praise of Yin Li when he went to Shu could be excused, even though a minister should have no dealings across the border. Dealings across the border, he said, meant following one another privately without the ruler's command, whereas to set out one's own feelings while carrying out a command and cultivating friendly relations was the proper way of an envoy. If Zhang Wen's praise of Yin Li made the people there marvel, he said, this showed that our ministers included many worthy men and displayed the excellence of the state in a foreign land, and he cited Zhao Wenzi of Jin and Wangsun Yu of Chu, who had praised ministers of their own states in other states. Records, Wu 12 §36 · 41–43

Zhao Da treasured his arts, and even when renowned Confucian scholars and fine gentlemen such as Kan Ze and Yin Li humbled themselves in person to come and learn from him, he kept them hidden and would not teach them. Records, Wu 18 §22

Chen Shou's main text stops at Yin Li's becoming Administrator of Lingling and does not record his courtesy name, the year of his death or the place of his death. Records, Wu 7 §39