death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name occupation
1582 jinan ming dynasty 1522 yin shidan
 yin shidan literary scholar , government official
yin shidan

yin shidan -lrb- , 1522 -1582 -rrb- was a literary figure and government official during the ming dynasty .
yin shidan was born in licheng , jinan into a poor family .
he took the imperial examination in 1547 and eventually became a member of the grand secretariat , de facto the highest institution in the ming imperial government .
he was dismissed from government in 1571 .
yin shidan is buried there in the yinjialin village -lrb- yin jia lin cun , to the southwest of jinan -rrb- , where some of his descendants still live .
his tomb was damaged during the cultural revolution , but the tomb mound still remains .
