Yáo Bǐng 姚炳, zì Yànhuī 彥暉, was an early-Qīng Shī scholar from Qiántáng 錢塘 (modern Hángzhōu 杭州, Zhèjiāng). Lifedates not firmly established — CBDB id 121907 carries no birth or death year. Active in the Kāngxī period; the Sìkù-recension of his Shī shí míng jiě 詩識名解 (KR1c0055) was respectfully collated in Qiánlóng 42 (1777), with the work circulating in the early-mid eighteenth century.
The Shī shí míng jiě in 15 juǎn is his sole transmitted work. Its method is that of míngwù xùngǔ (natural-history glossing), divided into niǎo (birds, 3 juǎn), shòu (beasts, 3 juǎn), cǎo (plants, 6 juǎn), and mù (trees, 3 juǎn) — explicitly excluding insects and fish, on Yáo’s reading of the Lúnyǔ’s formulation that xué Shī covers “niǎo shòu cǎo mù”. The Sìkù editors register this as somewhat overly literal — the Lúnyǔ covers the four categories generically, not exhaustively — but acknowledge the work’s substantive contribution to the natural-history-of-the-Shī tradition.
Otherwise no biography is preserved. He does not appear in the major regional gazetteers nor in the Qīng jìnshì lists, and his identification within the broader Hángzhōu literati network is not documented in the standard sources.