On the eve of the Revolution of 1911, the local Ge Lao Association was extremely active. The Qing government banned it by edict and severely punished the leader. Ding Linnian ordered Hu Yunshan, the leader of the association, to come to the government office and said to him: "I don't care whether you are in the Ge Laohui or not. What I mainly care about is whether you are harmful to the people..." After that, instead of punishing Hu, he let him go. .
Sympathize with the revolutionary army. After the revolution broke out, Ge Laohui became the revolutionary army, with Hu Yunshan as its commander. Because Ding Linnian sympathized with the revolutionary cause and cared about the sufferings of the people, that night, the revolutionary army sent troops to guard the government office, and also sent guards to protect the prefect. They issued a notice saying: "Anyone who harms any grass or tree in the government office will be shot without mercy!" Throughout the night! In the meantime, Ding Linnian has been sitting in the lobby of the government office, listening with concern to the soldiers' reports on the progress of the righteous deeds. Ding Linnian wrote many works in his life, mainly including "Lin Guan Jijin Illustration", "Zhao Lin Guan Series", "Collection of Text Rubbings of Famous Utensils of Three Dynasties", "Rizhao Ding Family Collection of Utensils", "Collection of Classification of Unearthed Cultural Relics" ", "Records of Calligraphy and Paintings of Sages from Shanzuo Township", "Critical Research on Inscriptions of Yin and Zhou Dynasties", etc. He was a famous collector, archaeologist and calligrapher at that time.