Wáng Róng 王融 (467–493 CE; zì Yuánzhǎng 元長) was a Southern Qí 南齊 Yǒngmíng era poet and one of the “Eight Friends” (bā yǒu 八友) of the Jǐnglíng wáng 竟陵王 Xiāo Zǐliáng 蕭子良. A leading practitioner of the new four-tone tonal prosody (sì shēng 四聲), he rose rapidly at court before being executed at age 27 for political miscalculation. Biography in Nán Qí shū juǎn 47 and Nán shǐ juǎn 22. His reconstructed collected works are KR4b0051.