Wáng Bāo 王褒 (ca. 513–576 CE), styled Zǐyuān 子淵, was a poet and literary official from Lángyé Línyí 琅琊臨沂 (modern Shāndōng), of the distinguished Wáng clan of Lángye. He rose to literary prominence at the Liáng 梁 court, where he was regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation. When the Wèi forces captured Jiāngling in 555 CE — ending the Liáng dynasty in its western stronghold — Wáng Bāo was taken north along with Yú Xìn 庾信 and many other southern literati, and he spent the rest of his life as a literary official at the Northern Zhōu 北周 court. Together with Yú Xìn, he is recognized as one of the two southern poets who brought the refined Liáng literary aesthetic to the northern courts, significantly influencing the Suí and early Táng styles. His official correspondence (letters in parallel prose preserved in his biography), his frontier yuèfǔ verse, and his court occasional poetry are his principal surviving contributions. His biography appears in Zhōushū 周書 41 and Běishǐ 北史 83. CBDB records him under id 462981 (dynasty: Northern Zhou). His reconstructed collected works are preserved in the Kanripo corpus as KR4b0076.