Xue Tao (768-832) was a native of Chang'an (now Xi'an, Shaanxi). A famous female poet in the Tang Dynasty, a courtesan, and a Qing guest, also known as Xue Xiaoshu.
When Xue Tao was young, he entered Shu with his father Xue Yunshi, and then lived in Shu. In the early days of Zhenyuan, Wei Gao Zhenshu summoned Xue Tao to join the music membership. In the fifth year of Zhenyuan (789), he was punished to Songzhou, and presented the poem "Punishment to the Side to Conceive Wei Linggong", and was returned to the music and lived in Huanhuaxi. Later, he and the successive envoys of the Xichuan Festival, Wei Gao, Gao Chongwen, Wu Yuanheng to Li Deyu, etc., all had singing remuneration. Wei Gao planned to play him as a school scholar, but the old practice was unsuccessful, but Xue Tao was famous as a "girls' school book" for a while. In his later years, he moved to Biji Fang, built a poetry building, chanted leisurely, and dressed as a female Taoist priest, and died in the sixth year of Yamato (832).
Xue Tao argues about wisdom and poetry, and many poems are written to support things and words, expressing his emotional characteristics of pursuing pure and noble feelings. She thought that the size of the paper she commonly used was too large, inconvenient for communication, and there was no warm color, so she instructed the craftsman to create the "Xue Tao note" that was easy to carry and had pink characteristics, and this invention left a valuable cultural heritage to the Chinese nation. He is the author of "Jinjiang Collection".
It is said that Xue Tao is young and knows the rhythm of music, and at the age of eight, he is a literary and can export chapters. One day, his father sat in the court, pointed to the well and said: "The court is in addition to an ancient tong, towering in the clouds. Ling Tao continued, Tao responded. "The branches welcome the birds of the north and the south, and the leaves send the wind in the evening. This song "Jing Wu Yin" should be her ** work, and her father was also happy and angry, half speechless, just a long sigh.
Xue Tao's poems are good at colloquialism, and most of them are catchy, such as the poem "Zhulang Temple": "There are many ancient trees in front of Zhulang Temple, and the sunset is sinking and the mountains are greener." Where there is a flute in Jiangcun, the sound is full of Yinglang songs. "A poem, a scene, a blend of scenes, it becomes a scenic spot.
Of course, some of Xue Tao's poems are also classical, which is the need of the beginning, such as "Homesickness" written by her: "The water of Mount Emei is like oil, and I pity my heart and do not tie the boat." He Pian Fan left Jinpu, and sang in unison. "[Not tied to the boat] exemplified the "Zhuangzi. "Lie Yukou": "The skillful, the wise are worried, the incompetent have nothing to want, they are full of food and travel, the boat is not tied to the boat, and the empty and traveler is also." This classic, the great poet Li Bai used it when he went out of Shu, and Xue Tao was homesick, and Taibai Gong was the same.
Xue Tao and "Xiao Du", that is, Du Mu, a scholar in the middle school, also have a singing remuneration, Du Mu sent Tao's poem "Bai Pingzhou": "Mountain birds fly red belts, Tingwei dismantles purple flowers." The light of the stream is thorough at the beginning, and the autumn colors are Qinghua. Knowing the joy of life in a quiet place, and seeing death in the noise. There is no tiredness of the Duo Jue group, and it will eventually live up to the smoke. Xue Tao was also very excited to receive Du Mu's poem, and said: "The Pisces bottom matter is to Nong's house, and the new poems are in the hands of the sun." Sing to the song of Baiping Island, Hibiscus empty old Shujiang flowers. Du Mu knew that a generation of talented women had many unsatisfactory problems, and cultivation seemed to be the only way for her in her old age, so she comforted her. And Xue Tao, as a talented woman, also has an unspeakable secret, that is, personal emotion - Furong empty old Shujiang flower - Originally, the poet Yuan Zhi befriended her, and also wrote a poem "Sending Xue Tao" to express his true feelings for Xue Tao. It's a pity that Yuan Zhen failed to pass the hurdle of his parents, and they don't like the background of talented girls. After this matter came to naught, Xue Tao was already disheartened and began to become obsessed with Taoism. In fact, it is not surprising that the scholars and women of the Tang Dynasty advocated Taoism, which is also related to the will of the imperial court.
Although they did not become husband and wife, the poem written by Yuan Zhi to Xue Tao has been handed down on a large scale, and it is recorded as follows:
Jinjiang waterslide moth eyebrows, illusion Wenjun and Xue Tao.
The words are clever and steal the parrot's tongue, and the article is divided into phoenix feathers.
They have quit their jobs and stopped writing, and all the ministers want to dream of knives.
After farewell acacia separated from smoke and water, the iris flowers are five clouds high.
Zhuo Wenjun is the wife of Sima Xiangru of Han Fu, and she and Xue Tao are also beautiful and talented women, and until now, they are still the business cards of the country of abundance.