Yang Yinhang was admitted to Beiyang Public School (Tianjin Chinese and Western School) when he was young. At that time, Beiyang College was controlled by foreigners. Some students were dissatisfied with the food and started the student movement. Foreigners fired a troublemaker. Yang Yinhang didn't attend, but he saw that many students were frightened by the arrogance of outsiders, silently and angrily said, "There is still me!" He was also fired. 1897 was admitted to Nanyang Public College (the predecessor of Shanghai Jiaotong University), and the following year he was qualified to study in Waseda University in Japan because of his excellent performance, where he was influenced by revolutionary ideas.
190 1 year, Yang Yinhang took the opportunity of visiting relatives in Wuxi during the summer vacation to encourage a group of progressive young people to organize inspirational clubs in Wuxi, with more than 40 participants. Qiu was elected president, and Qin and Yu Zhong were vice presidents. In the name of imparting new knowledge, they publicized the anti-Qing revolution in E Shi schools.
1902, Yang Yinhang graduated from a Japanese school. After returning to China, she worked as an editor in Shanghai News, taught in Shanghai Normal University, Chengdu Middle School and five girls' schools, and often published articles in newspapers such as Continental Monthly to publicize the revolution. He also organized a physics and chemistry seminar in Wuxi with Cai, a classmate studying in Japan, and hired another Japanese teacher to teach natural science. He invited his two sisters, Yang Yinyu and others, to attend the seminar, which was a challenge to the feudal ethics at that time. In addition, he did not worship his ancestors and disrespect ghosts and gods, and was regarded as a big violation by feudal gentry. Yang Yinhang's two activities in Wuxi, his hometown, planted a batch of kindling of anti-Qing revolution. Later, some members of Inspirational Society and Physical and Chemical Research Association joined the League and participated in the recovery activities of Wuxi in the Revolution of 1911.
Yang Yinhang's revolutionary activities attracted the attention of the Qing court, and he was going to be arrested and imprisoned. He had to go abroad again on 1906 to study law in American law school. At this time, he had a systematic study of western democracy and rule of law, and also had a certain degree of fantasy. Fantasy of using western democracy and the rule of law to improve the decadent autocratic system and save poor and backward China. When he was in law school, he studied hard. When he graduated, his master's thesis "Japanese Commercial Law" was appreciated by his tutor and was included in the law series of this university.
Yang Yinhang returned to the motherland on the eve of the Revolution of 1911 with the fantasy of governing the country according to law, and was recommended by Zhang Jian, the champion of the late Qing Dynasty, to teach in a school of law and politics in Beijing. Soon after, he resigned and returned to the south. He worked as an editor and lawyer in Shanghai China News Center, and initiated the establishment of the Shanghai Lawyers Association.
After the success of the Revolution of 1911, Yang Yinhang was recommended by Zhang Jian as the president of the Jiangsu Provincial High Court and director of the judicial preparation department. During his tenure, he enforced the law impartially. At that time, a powerful warlord arrived in Shanghai, and some officials and gentry jointly issued a welcome speech in the newspaper. They wrote Yang Yinhang's name in without his prior consent. He was very angry when he saw the newspaper and immediately made a statement in it. He doesn't welcome warlords. At that time, some people laughed at his ignorance of current affairs. He said, "The name and device can't be dummies."
Shortly after Yang Yinhang became the director of Jiangsu Higher Judicial Department, Beiyang government decided that "people from this province can't work in this province", so he was transferred to Zhejiang Province and still served as the director of Jiangsu Higher Judicial Department. After arriving in Zhejiang, he was not afraid of powerful people and strictly enforced the law. At that time, there was a bully in Zhejiang who thought he had nepotism with the governor, killing people in the village and even committing crimes. The victim's family appealed, and the local court reported it to the provincial office after hearing it. Yang Yinhang raised his pen and sentenced the bully to death. Qu Yingguang, the governor of Zhejiang, mediated and asked Yang to reduce his sentence. Yang replied: "Killing people is unforgivable." Qu Yingguang oppresses people by force, while Yang claims that the judiciary is independent and ignores it. Qu Yingguang complained to Yuan Shikai, then president. Fortunately, Zhang He, then Yuan Shikai's confidential secretary, was an old friend. Therefore, Yuan Shikai personally criticized "this is a good man" and transferred Yang Yinhang back to Beijing on 19 15. Soon, Yuan Shikai fell, came to power, and was appointed as the chief procurator of the capital. At this time, he had seen through the tyranny, corruption and violence of the warlord government at that time and realized that the so-called constitution was just a dead letter, but he was still upright. Later, it was discovered that Xu Shiying, the commander in chief, had taken bribes. After sending someone to verify, Xu was ordered to be detained. There was a great uproar in Beijing, and government officials came forward to plead for Yang and asked for special bail. Yang believes that anyone who breaks the law must be investigated and cannot be punished as a doctor as in feudal times. Beiyang government intervened, but he remained firm and never gave in. The result was suspended by the Beiyang government. Yang Yinqiang left Beijing for the south in spite of his anger and returned to his hometown of Wuxi. He was seriously ill because of anxiety and anger. After recovering from his illness, he was appointed as the deputy editor-in-chief of Shanghai Shenbao and returned to his old job as a lawyer. He once said angrily that there are only two professions in the world today, one is a doctor and the other is a lawyer. When he was a lawyer, he devoted himself to complaints and grievances. Facing those criminals, no matter how high their status, power and remuneration are, they will not be accepted. 1in the middle of 929, a huge sum of money was stolen from a bank vault. Obviously, the bank manager is an insider thief, but he falsely accused two employees in charge of the vault. Yang Yinhang was very angry when he learned this, and volunteered to defend the two employees in court. Gao Ying, a foreign consul, smuggled opium, and the case was exposed. He wanted to ask Yang Yinhang to defend him, and sent his secretary Chen Mou to make repeated requests and promised him a large sum of money. Yang resolutely refuses to accept it.
The judicial department of the old government was as corrupt as all government officials. There was a judge who always brought a teapot full of wine while hearing a case. Yang is very angry with him. He and another lawyer with a sense of justice, Lu Dicheng, jointly wrote to the Attorney General, demanding that the drunken and confused judge be replaced. Later, the Shanghai District Court transferred a dean. It is reported that this person was sentenced to prison in the United States for forging checks. Therefore, Yang Yinhang saw through the decay of the old government; The so-called law is just a rope used by the ruling class to bind the people. His illusion of governing the country according to law was completely shattered. Therefore, in his spare time dealing with lawyer affairs, he continued to write some articles for newspapers, but devoted himself to the study of phonology and ancient coins, as well as the writing of neighboring countries such as India and Myanmar.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Yang Yinhang stopped being a lawyer and taught The Book of Songs at Shanghai Aurora Women's College of Arts and Sciences. He hates Japanese invaders and traitors who regard thieves as their fathers. On one occasion, he met a friend who surrendered to the Japanese invaders on the road and walked away contemptuously. The traitor later told people that Yang Yinhang was arrogant.
During the Japanese occupation, Yang Yinhang devoted himself to the study of phonology in addition to teaching. He believes that The Book of Songs is an ancient musical score with beautiful rhythm. So he added phonology to the Book of Songs word for word. Then, he added rhyme to Qu Yuan's Li Sao, and later combined the two phonological notes into one book, Poetic Style Rhyme. Unfortunately, this book, called Juexue, was not published before his death, and even the manuscript was lost after his death.
1945 On the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yang Yinhang died of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 67.