Huángfǔ Rǎn 皇甫冉 (ca. 716–770)
Zì Màozhèng 茂政. Native of Āndìng 安定 (modern Jīngyuán 涇原, Gānsù) by family origin, but long-resident at Wúxī 無錫 and Dānyáng 丹陽 in Jiāngnán. Jìnshì zhuàngyuán (top jìnshì) of Tiānbǎo 15 (756). Older brother of Huángfǔ Zēng 皇甫曾; one of the Dàlì shí cáizǐ 大曆十才子.
A child prodigy: per Dúgū Jí’s 獨孤及 preface to his collection, he could “compose at ten and was mature at fifteen”; even Zhāng Jiǔlíng 張九齡 is said to have been impressed by him. After his jìnshì he served as Wúxī wèi 無錫尉, zuǒ jīnwú bīngcáo 左金吾兵曹, and as Hénánfǔ shūjì 河南府書記 under the Hénán military governor. Promoted zuǒ shíyí 左拾遺 in Dàlì 2 (767) and zuǒ bǔquē 左補闕 shortly after. He died in office at Dānyáng in Dàlì 5 (770), aged 54 by the preface — giving a birth year of 716/717. Some standard reference works give 719 or 720; the 716 value here is consistent with the preface and CBDB does not record him.
His extant collection is the Táng Huángfǔ Rǎn shī jí KR4c0016 in 7 juǎn. His five-character verse — particularly the Sòng and huái genre exercises — is among the most-anthologized of the Dàlì generation, exemplary of the contemplative shānshuǐ idiom that runs from Wáng Wéi 王維 through to Wéi Yìngwù 韋應物 韋應物.