Wáng Sōngnián 王松年, a Daoist of Mt. Tiāntái 天台山 (modern Zhèjiāng), active in the mid-tenth century and into the early Sòng — his only securely datable output, the Xiānyuàn biānzhū 仙苑編珠 KR5b0301 (DZ 596), draws on hagiographic sources running “from the Táng and Liáng down to what I have heard and seen” (自唐梁已降接於聞見者), placing the compilation after the fall of the HòuLiáng (Five-Dynasties) and most plausibly in the early years of the Sòng (after 960). His biography is otherwise unknown; he is not represented in CBDB beyond a placeholder entry without dates. Schipper & Verellen (Taoist Canon 1: 433, Franciscus Verellen) identify him only as a tenth-century Tiāntái Daoist.