Legend has it that Xue Tao commanded craftsmen to cut the paper that everyone used every day into small pieces, dye the small pieces with dyes, and then record poems on them. Later, because Xue Tao made ten-color stationery for Yuan Zhen and Yuan Zhen wrote poems on pine paper for Xue Tao, Songhua stationery became famous.
Xue was born in the Tang Dynasty. Famous stationery paper in Tang Dynasty, also known as "Huanhua Stationery". Also known as "Songhua stationery", "reduced stationery" and "red stationery". Li Shangyin, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Send Cui Jue to Xichuan": "Huan Huajian paper is peach-colored, and poetry is used to chant jade hooks."