Wáng Qǐ 王棨 (fl. Xiántōng–Guǎngmíng, c. 862–880; zì Fǔzhī 輔之), of Fúqīng 福清 (Fújiàn). Jìnshì of Xiántōng 3 (862); rose to Shuǐbù lángzhōng. After Huáng Cháo’s rebellion (880), his fate is unrecorded.
Wáng’s distinction is that his jìnshì-style examination fù (rhapsodies) survive as an intact authorial corpus — a unique case in the late-Táng record. Most poets’ examination pieces (Lǐ Shāngyǐn’s Ní-shang yǔyī qū shī, Hán Yù’s Míngshuǐ fù) were not preserved in their biéjí but only scattered through later anthologies; Wáng’s collection is the principal first-hand witness to the late-Táng lǜfù (regulated rhapsody) examination genre. His 8th-generation descendant Wáng Píng 王蘋 王蘋 (Sòng Zhùzuòláng) found Wáng Qǐ’s shěngtí shī (examination-style verse) in the imperial libraries and appended them to the collection.
Principal work in the corpus: Línjiǎo jí KR4c0084 in 1 juǎn + appended shěngtí shī (45 lǜfù + 21 examination poems). CBDB id 4204 (and homonym entries 35030, 445583) has no secure dates.