Ms. Xue Tao

Ms. Xue Tao

This is a picture from inside the pagoda, the gentleman is drinking tea and reading a book.



I love the bamboo! This is a lovely park beside the JinJing River in the south of Chengdu.


Xue Tao (758?-832) was born in Sichuan Province to Xue Yun, an official from Chang'an, and his wife Madam Fei. Xue Tao was composing poems by the age of eight. The child prodigy was also an excellent calligrapher and had extraordinary musical talent.