Wéi Ǎi 韋藹 (Táng, fl. ca. 880s–900s), younger brother of the late-Táng / Former-Shǔ poet and chancellor Wéi Zhuāng 韋莊 韋莊 (836?–910) of Dùlíng 杜陵. CBDB id 92190 (Táng dynasty; no specific dates recorded). His name appears in transmitted history almost solely as compiler of his elder brother’s poetry collection KR4c0111 Huànhuā jí in Tiānfù 3 / 6 / 9 (903.07.06).
Wéi Ǎi’s preface to the Huànhuā jí is itself a major piece of biographical evidence on Wéi Zhuāng: it specifies that the gēngzǐ (880, year of the Huáng Cháo sack of Chángān) and earlier compositions — “tens of tōng of poetry and prose” — were lost when the manuscripts went up in bīnghuǒ (military fires); that the resulting reassembled corpus by 903 came to “barely a thousand pieces”; and that the title Huànhuā derives from Wéi Zhuāng’s restoration of Dù Fǔ’s Cǎotáng site on the Huànhuā xī west of Chéngdū in 902. The collection’s preface also documents Wéi Zhuāng’s career-trajectory: appointed Pànshǐ in summer 900 from the Zhōngjiàn (Imperial Censorate); answered Wáng Jiàn’s summons to Shǔ in spring 901 as zòujì; in 902 found the abandoned Cǎotáng foundations.
The catalog meta gives Wéi Ǎi’s function as 編 (compiler) for KR4c0111; this is the only attested editorial activity. Nothing more is preserved of his career or independent compositions.