Zhào Chóngzuò 趙崇祚 (fl. ca. 935–945), zì Hóngjī 弘基, official of the Hòu Shǔ 後蜀 (934–965), one of the Five Dynasties / Ten Kingdoms regimes centered on Chéngdū 成都. Title at compilation: Wèiwèi shàoqīng 衛尉少卿 (Junior Director of the Imperial Guards). Compiler (jí 輯) of the Huājiān jí 花間集 KR4i0013 — the first and foundational anthology of the Chinese cí 詞 (song-lyric) tradition — in 940 (《後蜀廣政三年》).
Almost nothing is known of Zhào outside of the Huājiān jí preface by his contemporary Ōuyáng Jiǒng 歐陽炯 (896–971), which describes him as a connoisseur of fine fabrics (“having from the Pluck-Kingfisher-Isle gained the rare plumage; from the silk-spring weaving the singular shuttling of the loom”) and a literary host who “convened the guests, prolonged the fine discussion, and gathered the songs of the recent shīkè qǔzǐ (poet-songsters).” He selected 500 cí 詞 by 18 poets, dividing them into 12 juǎn.
CBDB id 94012, fl. earliest/latest year 950 / 950 (placeholder).
A 趙崇祚 of the Hòu Shǔ is recorded scantily in the Xīn Wǔdài shǐ 新五代史 and the Shíguó Chūnqiū 十國春秋. The Sòng catalogues from Chóngwén zǒngmù 崇文總目 onward attribute the Huājiān jí to him consistently; later catalogues (Sòng shǐ Yìwénzhì, Zhízhāi shūlù jiětí) confirm. A Qīng-dynasty conjecture (Zhū Yízūn 朱彝尊, Cí zōng 詞綜 preface) — that he might be related to the Shǔ ruling Mèng 孟 family by marriage — has no evidence beyond the title Wèiwèi shàoqīng, which suggests court access; this remains conjecture.