In the autumn of the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920), he was admitted to Xiangshan County Senior Primary School.
In the Republic of China 14 (1925), he entered Shanghai CoCo Lee Middle School and actively participated in the struggle to support the May 30th Movement.
In July of the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), he transferred to Pudong Middle School and joined the Communist Youth League.
In the Republic of China 16 (1927), he was arrested in the "April 12th" counter-revolutionary coup and detained for three months. In prison, he wrote a poem "Before Death Comes", which is more than 500 lines long and published in the monthly Sun. And get to know the editor of the society and join the "Sun Society".
In the autumn of 16 (1927), he joined the German tutoring department of Tongji University and became the producer party of party member and China.
In the early 17th year of the Republic of China (1928), he was arrested again and returned to his hometown after he was released from prison.
In February of the Republic of China 18 (1929), he returned to Shanghai to work in the youth league and labor movement. In May of the same year, he was arrested for organizing the third strike of workers in Shanghai Silk Factory. After he was released from prison, he worked in the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and successively served as the editor-in-chief of Modern Youth, a major anti-imperialist youth league publication, and Lenin Youth, a central publication of the Communist Youth League. He has written and translated many political papers.
In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), the Chinese Left-wing Writers' Union was established on March 2nd, and he was one of the founders. His published works include Blood Word, Farewell, Brothers, Song of the Mayday, and Let the Dead Die. Lu Xun praised it as "the shimmer of the East, the whistling arrow in the forest, the bud in late winter, the first step of marching, the great love for the pioneers and the monument of hatred for the saboteurs."
In the 20th year of the Republic of China (193 1) 1 month17th, he was arrested by the British police while attending a party in Shanghai Oriental Hotel.
In the 20th year of the Republic of China (193 1), on the evening of February 7th, five writers of the "Left-wing League", including Yin Fu, Rou Shi, Hu Yepin, Feng Keng and Li Qiushi, were secretly killed in the wilderness near garrison headquarters, the Kuomintang in Longhua, Shanghai. Yin Fu was only 22 years old when he was killed.