Two poems about Lingyun Temple
Tang Dynasty: Xue Tao
I heard that the moss in Lingyun Temple was so high that the wind was so high that the sun was almost gone.
The horizontal clouds stain the hibiscus wall, as if waiting for the poet's precious moon to come.
I heard that the flowers in Lingyun Temple were flying around the rocks and chasing the river.
Sometimes Chang'e's mirror is locked, and the five-colored clouds of Yaotai are carved out.
Xue Tao
Xue Tao (about 768-832), a female poet in the Tang Dynasty, whose courtesy name was Hongdu. A native of Chang'an (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province). He came to Shu because his father Xue Yun was an official. After his father's death, Xue Tao lived in Chengdu. When he was living in Chengdu, the highest local military and political officer in Chengdu, Jiannan Xichuan Jiedushi, was replaced for eleven terms, and most of them had poetry exchanges with Xue Tao. When Wei Gao was appointed as the Jiedu Envoy, he planned to request Tang Dezong to grant Xue Tao the official title of Secretary Provincial School Secretary. However, due to the old practice, this was not realized, but people called it "female school secretary". He once lived on Huanhua Creek (now Huanhua Creek Park) and made small pink paper to write poems. Later generations imitated it and called it "Xue Tao Paper". There is Xue Tao's tomb in Wangjianglou Park in Chengdu.