Yáo Xuàn 姚鉉 (968–1020)
Zì Bǎochén 寶臣. Native of Wúxī 無錫 (the Sòng Chángzhōu, modern Jiāngsū). Jìnshì of Tàipíng xīngguó 8 (983) at sixteen; appointed Tāngyīnwèi (Tāngyīn military deputy), then Dàlǐ-pínɡ-shì, Zuǒ shíyí, Zhí Shǐguǎn (Hanlin attendant in the History Office). He moved through a succession of provincial posts — prefect of Héyáng, Jiànzhōu — and rose to LiǎngZhè zhuǎnyùnshǐ. He was impeached and dismissed under Zhēnzōng (mid-1010s) and spent his late years out of office, dying in Tiānxǐ 4 (1020) at 52. His magnum opus is the Táng wéncuì 唐文粹 KR4h0024 in 100 juǎn — a distillation of Táng prose and poetry from the Wényuàn yīnghuá KR4h0022, completed ca. 1011, on which his scholarly reputation rests. The catalog meta gives 968–1020; CBDB confirms.