尹翁归 / 尹翁规 / Yin Wenggui (Western Han)

Overview

尹翁归 / 尹翁规 / Yin Wenggui enters the wiki through Hanji 426 as the clean and strict Western Han official placed after 赵广汉 as a contrast case. The episode reports the name as 尹翁规, while the more common historical form is 尹翁归; the stable page title preserves both to avoid a route collision later.

Current Profile

The source presents Yin as a strong local administrator, first as Donghai governor and then as You Fufeng. Like Zhao, he is clean, strict, and highly informed about local officials, commoners, and harmful actors. Unlike Zhao in the source’s moral structure, Yin’s severity is framed as institutional and orderly: he personally handles county matters, times arrests for official assessment meetings or inspections so they educate the bureaucracy, selects clean and justice-minded officials, treats people by ritual standards, and punishes disobedience sharply.

Yin therefore functions less as a full biography and more as a clean-strong-official comparator. Hanji 426 does not make him gentle; it makes him controlled. The contrast is that strictness can be part of local order when it remains tied to equal treatment, office discipline, and public administration rather than private anger.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han official moved from Donghai governor to You Fufeng.
• Clean, fair, and strict administrator with detailed local information.
• Personally involved in county-level administration.
• Uses timed arrests and inspections to warn officials and commoners.
• Selects clean, fair, and evil-hating officials for senior roles.
• Treats favored and disfavored people by the same ritual standard while punishing disobedience harshly.

Evidence

Administrative profile:

• Hanji 426 says Yin was transferred from Donghai governor to You Fufeng.
• Hanji 426 says he was fair and clean, and knew the circumstances of local officials, people, and harmful actors clearly.
• Hanji 426 says he personally handled county affairs.

Strict but ordered governance:

• Hanji 426 says he usually arrested offenders during autumn-winter official assessment meetings or county inspections in order to make an example.
• Hanji 426 says he promoted clean, fair, and evil-hating officials.
• Hanji 426 says he was ritual-minded toward people he liked and disliked alike, while punishing those who disobeyed orders severely.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 426’s compact closing profile. It does not reconstruct Yin’s full career, exact chronology, original office titles, or specific cases. The name is kept as 尹翁归 / 尹翁规 because the episode summary uses 尹翁规, while later sources may use the standard 尹翁归. The contrast with Zhao Guanghan is interpretive: both are clean and strict, but Hanji 426 uses Yin to show that strict governance can remain more orderly when not driven by private revenge.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 426’s closing Yin Wenggui governance contrast.
• Preserved the 尹翁归 / 尹翁规 naming variance in the canonical title.

Relationships

• 赵广汉 - contrast case for clean and strict governance that collapses into retaliation.
• 清官权力边界 - related concept because Yin supplies the ordered-governance contrast.
• 清官能吏能力差 - adjacent concept because Yin is framed as clean plus administratively capable.
• 保境安民式守成治理 / Defensive Local Governance and 仁厚地方治理 / Humane Local Governance - neighboring local-governance concepts, though Hanji 426 emphasizes order and severity more than gentleness.