Sòng Bórén 宋伯仁 (active c. 1237–1261), zì Qìzhī 器之 (the Kanripo catalog meta has 嘂之, a transcription typo), sobriquet Xuěyán 雪巖 (“Snow Crag”), was a native of Húzhōu 湖州 (modern northern Zhèjiāng). He held a modest sub-administrative post in the Salt-Transport Commission (Yányùnsī shǔguān 鹽運司属官) during the Jiāxī 嘉熙 era (1237–1240) and was during the same years lodging at the Western Embankment of the Mǎchéng 馬塍 district outside Hángzhōu — a quarter that had become the residential heart of the Jiānghú 江湖 itinerant poet coterie around Chén Qǐ 陳起’s publishing operations. His associates in that coterie included Gāo Jiǔwàn 高九萬 and Sūn Jìfān 孫季蕃.
Two of his works survive. The Xīchéng jí 西塍集 (also titled Xuěyán yíncǎo 雪巖吟草), the single-juàn poetry collection composed in 1238–1239, is catalogued as KR4d0358; its contents largely overlap with Sòng Bórén’s section in Chén Qǐ’s Jiānghú xiǎojí 江湖小集 anthology. His other major work, the Méihuā xǐshén pǔ 梅花喜神譜 (Album of Plum-Blossom Spirit-Likenesses), is the first printed pictorial monograph in Chinese book history — a hundred woodblock images of plum-blossom forms each paired with a quatrain — and is one of the most important works of early Chinese print culture. The two surviving Sòng prints of the Xǐshén pǔ are in the Shànghǎi Library and the National Palace Museum, Tāiběi.
Liú Kèzhuāng 劉克莊 included Sòng Bórén’s Qiūwǎn 秋晚 quatrain in his Hòucūn qiānjiā shī 後村千家詩 anthology, though that poem is not in the present recension of the Xīchéng jí.