Hé Xùn 何遜 (ca. 480 – ca. 518), zì Zhòngyán 仲言, native of Dōnghǎi Tán 東海郯 (modern eastern Shāndōng / northern Jiāngsū), was a Liáng-dynasty Yǒngmíng 永明 / gōngtǐ 宮體 poet of the second wave. After passing the xiùcái examination he served the prince Xiāo Wěi 蕭偉 (Liáng Línchuānjìnghuìwáng) and later rose to Shuǐbù yuánwài láng 水部員外郎 (Member of the Water Bureau in the Department of State Affairs) under Liáng Wǔdì — hence the conventional Táng-onward title Hé Shuǐbù 何水部. His verse, much admired by Shěn Yuē 沈約 and the Yǒngmíng circle, is the canonical model of intimate / domestic verse in the medieval tradition. Dù Fǔ 杜甫 repeatedly invoked Hé as a stylistic forebear: “Wǎn jié jiàn yú shī lǜ xì, ér jīn shuí sì? Wéi yǒu Hé láng” 晚節漸於詩律細, 而今誰似? 唯有何郎. Standard biography in Liáng shū 49 (附傳, with Lǐ Lǐ 李丘 et al.) and Nán shǐ 33. CBDB does not register firm dates; standard scholarship places his life ca. 480–518. The catalog meta does not give lifedates; the figures here are reconstructed from his attested fl. period under Liáng Wǔdì. His writings survive in KR4b0014 Hé Shuǐbù jí 何水部集.