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).
"Weiling Peacock"
At the beginning of Wei Gao's rule in Shu (the first year of Zhenyuan, AD 785), South Vietnam presented a peacock. Let the house open a pond and set up a cage to live in it. In the autumn of the fifth year of Yamato (AD 831), the peacock died. In the summer of the following year, Tao also died. The "Weiling Peacock" mentioned in some poems also refers to this historical story.
Xue Tao's characters
Xue Tao's characters are unfeminine and his writing is strong and aggressive. The beauty of his calligraphy is quite similar to Wang Xi's method, and he is also like Mrs. Wei after learning from it. Every time he likes to write his own poems, his language is also skillful, his thoughts are elegant and elegant, and he writes aphorisms in Dharma, hence his name. If Mrs. Gongsun dances with the "sword weapon" and Huang Si's family flowers are entrusted to Du Fu, then there will be legends. The authentic calligraphy of Ran Tao is now lost.
Xue Tao's Notes
Xue Tao was sent to the border areas as a punishment in the early Zhenyuan Dynasty, and he retired to Huanhua Creek in the western suburbs of Chengdu for a long time. Huanhua people are busy making paper, but Tao regretted that the paper was too large to write her own poems. She used hibiscus bark as raw material in Huanhua River, Chengdu, and added hibiscus juice to make dark red and exquisite small colored paper, which became popular in later generations. Small red eight-line paper, Xue Tao's paper. It was mostly used in writing love poems and letters to express love and longing, and was extremely popular at that time and in later generations. Because Xue Tao invented it, it is called Xue Tao Jian. As for calling Huanhua Jian, Songhua Jian, and Ten Types of Mangan Jian Tao Jian, it is a mistake. Huanhua probably borrowed the name of a place; Songhua may have been written incorrectly by Huanhua, but Songhua is tender green; and the ten notes are from the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, Xie Jingchu made ten-color paper sheets (dark red, pink, apricot red, bright yellow, dark green, light green, dark green, light green, bronze green, light cloud) in Huanhuaxi, titled "Thank you official paper".
Xue Tao Well
Xue Tao Well was formerly known as Yunujin. "The water tastes sweet and refreshing, different from Jiangquan." This is because the well is near Jinjiang River, originates from Jiangquan, and is filtered through sand. It is said that Tao drew water from this well when he made the paper, but there is no proof. However, the Ming Dynasty did use the water from this well to make paper and paid tribute. In March of the third year of Kangxi (AD 1664), Ji Yingxiong began to write the three characters "Xue Taojing" and erected a stone tablet next to the well. In the 19th year of Jiaqing (AD 1814), Sichuan Governor Chang Ming was ordered to build the Leizu Temple on the left side of the well, and the political envoys Fang Ji and Wang Qikun built the Poetry Chanting Tower and Huanhua Pavilion on the right side of the well.
Xue Tao Wine
The residents drank wine from the well and named it Xue Tao Wine, which was very beautiful. However, the theory that Xue Tao's paper production was based on the so-called water intake from Xue Tao's well, which began in the Ming Dynasty, is already fallacious. In the early Qing Dynasty, water from Xue Tao's well was used to make wine, but it had nothing to do with Tao. But it has been chanted endlessly, and they are all just beautiful.
Xue Tao’s Tomb
It is located deep in the bamboo forest in the northwest corner of Chengdu Wangjianglou Park. The main body consists of a tomb, a tombstone, and a tomb base platform, and is surrounded by guardrails. The tomb is about three meters in diameter. It is made of three layers of red sandstones to form a circular tomb base. The tomb is surrounded by a one-meter-wide tomb base platform. Stone slabs are used to form a path around the tomb. It forms an integral whole with the platform and has excellent visual effects. Regarding the shape of the stele, it was originally designed as a relief cloud-head stele. Later, a wind-eroded ancient stele was discovered in the park. The stele is 1.58 meters high and 0.82 meters wide. The word "Wanli" can be faintly seen on the upper right side of the stele. Therefore, it is a Ming stele. The first character of the main text in the middle is like the Chinese character Tang. It is guessed that it should be the tombstone of Xue Hongdu, a female school secretary in the Tang Dynasty. The shape and size of the stele were referenced when redesigning to form the current shape of the tomb. . The eight characters on the front of the current curtain tablet are "Tomb of Xue Hongdu, a female school secretary of the Tang Dynasty", which was inscribed in October 1994 by Mr. Liu Bingqian, a famous calligrapher in Sichuan Province. The "Reconstruction of Xue Tao's Tombstone" on the back of the monument was written by Liu Tianwen, vice president of the Sichuan Province Xue Tao Research Association. The conceptual layout of Xue Tao's tomb is based on Chinese Confucianism and Taoism, which believe that the sky is round and the earth is round. The design uses the wall as a square and the tomb as a circle, which means that the female poet rests in heaven and earth and will be remembered by the world forever.
Xue Tao and Yuan Zhen fell in love at first sight. Xue Tao was thirty-eight years old at the time, and Yuan Zhen’s younger Xue Tao was eleven years old. Yuan Zhen was able to write at the age of 9, and passed the Ming Dynasty at the age of 16. At the age of 24, he was awarded the title of Secretary Provincial School Secretary. He was a poet as famous as Bai Juyi in the mid-Tang Dynasty, and was known as "Yuan Bai" in the world. At that time, Xue Tao was already well-known in the poetry world, and Yuan Zhen admired him very much, but he regretted not being able to meet him. It was not until the fourth year of Yuanhe (809) that Yuan Zhen was appointed as the supervisory censor and was entrusted to inspect the two rivers. Only then did he have the opportunity to get acquainted with Xue Tao. Thirty-eight-year-old Xue Tao is mature and charming, talented and talented, and his beauty has not faded with age, which attracts Yuan Zhen, his deceased wife. The two hit it off, and they regretted seeing each other so late. They wrote poems and lyrics at the same time, which was very pleasant. Xue Tao was already 38 years old at that time and had long been tired of the life of a prostitute. When he saw Yuan Zhen, he wanted to support her. She also wrote a poem "Two Birds on the Pond": Two birds perched on the green pond, flying back in the morning and evening; even busier and approaching the sun, concentric among the lotus leaves, expressing her pursuit of true love and her wish to stay and fly with Yuan Zhen desire. However, this lingering emotion was separated by the fact that Yuan Zhen left Shu and returned to Beijing a few months later. Xue Tao described it this way in the poem "Giving Away": "Knowing that the king has not yet turned to Qinguan to ride, the sun shines on thousands of doors and hides the sleeves and cries. The boudoir does not know about the military affairs, and the moon is high and I still go to the husband's tower." About the time the two broke up, Yuan Zhen had promised to come to Chengdu to reunite with Xue Tao after finishing business. However, things are unpredictable and the actual situation is not as promised. Yuan Zhen later had a bumpy official career and had no fixed official position. During the subsequent frequent transfers, Yuan Zhen, who was originally younger than Xue Tao, naturally could not stick to his love. In addition, officials in the Tang Dynasty and There is no prohibition on dating prostitutes, so it is inevitable that Yuan will fall in love with someone else.
Although the two of them still kept in touch with each other after breaking up, on Yuan Zhen's side, it seemed that they were just coping, not as committed as they had promised that day. Xue Tao could only look at Chang'an from afar, cover her sleeves and lament, like all wives who long for their husbands' return, when the moon is waning and the moon is full, they go upstairs to express their nostalgic sorrow. As far as the history of Chinese literature is concerned, the two people may be regarded as a good story; but from Xue Tao's personal point of view, it is a distant and sad memory. Xue Tao was unhappy and never married.
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