Yú Yán 虞炎 (fl. late 5th c., Southern Qí), held the post of Sǎnjì shìláng 散騎侍郎 (“Cavalier Attendant of the Standing Branch”) under the Southern Qí. He was commissioned (fèng chì zhuàn 奉敕撰) by the Qí court, very plausibly under the literary patronage of the Crown Prince Wénhuì 文惠太子 Xiāo Chángmào 蕭長懋 (458–493), to compile the surviving writings of Bào Zhào 鮑照 (d. 466) — whose remains and works had been scattered by the violent end of the Línhǎi Wáng’s rebellion. Yú Yán’s compilation became the foundation of the KR4b0011 Bào Míngyuǎn jí / Bào cānjūn jí tradition, and his preface (preserved in the SBCK base text) is the principal early biographical source for Bào. Yú’s own life is otherwise undocumented — no separate biography survives in the standard histories, and CBDB does not register him.