Yáo Lóngqǐ 姚龍起 (fl. mid-13th c.), nephew (cóngzǐ 從子) of the zhuàngyuán Yáo Miǎn 姚勉 (姚勉) of Gāo’ān 髙安 in Ruìzhōu 瑞州 (modern Jiāngxī). Known principally as the posthumous compiler-editor of his uncle’s collected works, the Xuěpō jí 雪坡集 in fifty juàn (KR4d0364).
After Yáo Miǎn’s premature death in 1262, Lóngqǐ “compiled in 50 juàn the literary remains of [Chéngyī = Miǎn]” (姚龍起彚編成一文藁五十巻) — words from the preface of Wén Jíwēng 文及翁 (Jǐngdìng 5, 1264). Both Wén Jíwēng’s and Fāng Féngchén’s 方逢辰 prefaces explicitly address Lóngqǐ as the editor responsible. His nephew-relation to Yáo Miǎn (cóngzǐ) and his role in saving his uncle’s writings from dispersal are well attested, but he is otherwise not separately documented. Wén Jíwēng’s preface adds that Lóngqǐ “had risen to the Son-of-Heaven’s tutelage” (得陛天子之學), suggesting that he too had a metropolitan academic career, though the office is not specified. CBDB person 533718 records him as the editor of the Xuěpō jí with no further biographical detail.
Works in the Kanripo corpus. KR4d0364 Xuěpō jí 雪坡集 (editor, biān 編).