Mid-Jīn-dynasty 金 Daoist scholar and community leader, resident at Bó 亳 — the legendary birthplace of Lǎozǐ (modern Lù yì 鹿邑, Hénán, then under Jīn rule). Hào Xiāo yáo 逍遙 (“Free-and-Easy Wandering”, after the opening chapter of the Zhuāngzǐ). Known as the preface-writer and publisher of the anonymous [[KR5c0081|Dàodé zhēn jīng quán jiě 道德真經全解]] (DZ 696), which was attributed to Shī by the Daozang editors but which his own preface identifies as a received, not authored, text.
Role. Shī Yōng signs the 1159 preface to DZ 696 as Bó shè Shī Yōng Xiāo yáo 亳社時雍逍遙 — “Shī Yōng of the Bó altar-community, hào Xiāo yáo”. The reference to bó shè 亳社 (“Bó altar”) identifies him as a leader of a local Daoist community at Lǎozǐ’s legendary birthplace. In the preface, Shī narrates that he received an anonymous commentary on the Dàodé jīng from Xī Qū huà 郤去華 (a scholar who had returned to Bó from Zhēn dìng 眞定), found it philosophically illuminating, and — with assistance from “friends of the Two-Gold” community — commissioned woodblock engraving to disseminate the text. The preface is therefore an editorial preface, not an authorial one; Shī Yōng is the publisher and disseminator, not the author, of the commentary.
Date. The preface is dated the first month of 正隆四年 (Zhèng lóng 4, the Dān mǎo year) = January 1159 CE. This is Shī Yōng’s only firmly datable activity.
Misattribution by Daozang editors. The Míng Daozang editors attributed the commentary itself to Shī Yōng — an attribution preserved in the Kanripo catalog meta. Schipper & Verellen (2004, 2:651–52) and modern scholarship treat this as an error: the commentary is anonymous, and Shī Yōng is only its publisher and preface-writer.
Dating. Active 1159. No lifedates or other biographical details are recorded. No CBDB record identified. No DILA authority (this is a Daoist figure, not Buddhist).