Huáng Tāo 黃滔 (zì Wénjiāng 文江, ca. 840 – ca. 920?), of Pǔtián 莆田, Mǐn 閩 (Fújiàn). Late-Táng / MǐnWáng poet, examination official, and Buddhist epigrapher. Jìnshì of Qiánníng 2 (895) — late in life, after twenty-four years of examinations and ten years of preparatory study at the Língyánsì 靈巖寺 on Fúpíngshān 福平山 of Pǔtián. Under Zhāozōng he served as Sìmén bóshì 四門博士 and rose to Jiānchá yùshǐ lǐxíng 監察御史裏行. Assigned to the staff of Wáng Shěnzhī 王審知 at Wēiwǔjūn 威武軍 (Fúzhōu) as jiédù tuīguān 節度推官; with the Táng’s fall in 907 he refused to follow Liáng and remained in Fújiàn.
Huáng was the elder cousin of Huáng Pú 黃璞 (compiler of the Mǐnchuān míngshì zhuàn 閩川名士傳) and a friend of Ōuyáng Zhān 歐陽詹, Hán Wò 韓偓, Wú Róng 吳融 吳融, Sīkōng Tú 司空圖, and the Mǐn poet Xú Yín 徐夤 徐夤. His role in Wáng Shěnzhī’s court was as principal literary remonstrator and as drafter of major Mǐn-period Buddhist stele inscriptions (Quánzhōu Kāiyuánsì, Fúzhōu Bàoēn dìngguāng tǎ, Fúzhōu Xuěfēng zhēnjué dàshī, the Mǐnshān Língyánsì stele). His extant collection is KR4c0103 (SBCK eight-juǎn recension, prefaced by Hóng Mài and Cáo Xuéquán) and KR4c0105 (WYG ten-juǎn recension); both descend from the Sòng-period family rescue by his descendant Huáng Wò 黃沃 in 1176.
CBDB id 11102 records 840? as conventional birth year. The Sìkù tiyao notes the Wǔdàishǐ (which lists Wáng Shěnzhī’s literary clients as Wáng Dàn 王淡, Yáng Yí 楊沂, Xú Yín 徐寅, and others but omits Huáng Tāo) as defective at this point; the catalog meta dates Huáng’s WYG collection to 895 (his jìnshì year), which is followed here.