Wú Róng 吳融 (zì Zǐhuá 子華, ca. 850 – 903), of Shānyīn 山陰 in Yuèzhōu 越州 (Zhèjiāng). Late-Táng poet, prose-stylist, and Hànlín xuéshì. Jìnshì of Lóngjì 1 (889) under Zhāozōng, in the same cohort as Hán Wò 韓偓, with whom he served as fellow Hànlín academician. Rose under Zhāozōng to Hànlín xuéshì chéngzhǐ 翰林學士承旨, Hùbù shìláng zhī zhìgào 戶部侍郎知制誥, and was the principal late-Táng court drafter of imperial edicts; the Tángshū records that on Zhāozōng’s restoration in 901 Wú produced more than ten edicts in a single audience.
Wú Róng’s poetic style — euphonious, polished, with mid-Táng residual elegance — was influential among the Tiānyòu (904) generation. He is the author of KR4c0102 Tángyīng gēshī 唐英歌詩 (the WYG three-juǎn poetry collection) and the famous critical preface to KR4c0110 Chányuè jí 禪月集 — the principal contemporary appraisal of the monk-poet Guànxiū 貫休 釋貫休. The preface, dated Jǐwèi (899) at Lóngxìngsì in Jīngmén during Wú’s brief southern banishment, sets out Wú’s view that since Lǐ Bái and Bái Jūyì only Guànxiū could carry forward Táng poetic qìgǔ in the new manner. CBDB id 93246 confirms d. 903; the dataset records “?–903”; the conventional birth year ca. 850 is the inferred figure based on his 889 jìnshì and the customary age-band for that examination cohort.