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Father Xue Yun entered Shu as an official, and his wife and daughter lived in Shu after his death. When I was a child, I lived in Chengdu with my father. When I was eight or nine years old, I was able to write poetry. When my father died, my family was poor. At the age of sixteen, I fell in love with a music book and never got married after taking off the music book. Later, he settled in Huanhuaxi. Xue Taomei, Minhui, 8 years old, poetic, melodious and talented, became famous for a while. During the Zhenyuan period of Dezong (785 ~ 804), Wei Gao, the envoy of Nanxichuan in Ren Jian, ordered him to write poems and drink, so he became a musician. Yuan Zi, Liu□, Gao Chongwen, Wu, Li, Duan Wenchang, Du, Guo Zhao, Li Deyu, etc. came to Shuzhong successively, and all went in and out of the shogunate as geisha and diners. Wei Gao once asked the court to grant him the title of minister and provincial school clerk, which failed to come true, but people often called it "girls' school book". Later generations called Geji a "school book", which came from her. Xue Tao's date of birth is unknown. The year of his death was during Duan Wenchang's second visit to Shu, that is, between the sixth year (832) and the ninth year (835) of Daiwa. It was a mistake to say that she was in contact with Gao Pian when Gao Pian was appointed as our ambassador in Sichuan in 874, the first year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign.

Xue Tao and famous poets at that time, such as Yuan Zhen, Bai Juyi, Zhang Ji, Wang Jian, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu, Zhang Hu, etc. There have been paid exchanges. Living in Huanhuaxi, he made his own small pink stationery to write poems. Later generations copied it and called it "Xue". In her later years, she disguised as a Taoist woman, built a poetry building in Bijifang and spent her later years in a quiet life. Wang Jian's poem "Sending Books to Xue Tao in the Middle of Shu" praises: "The books of Wan Li Qiaobian Girls' School are collected in loquat flowers. It's better to lead the spring breeze than to sweep your eyebrows. "

Among the female poets in the Tang Dynasty, Xue Tao and He Yu are the most famous. Xue Tao, Yu and Yu are called the four great poetesses in the Tang Dynasty. Zhuo Wenjun, Xue Tao, Mrs. Hua Rui and Huang Li are also called the four talented women in Sichuan. Xue Tao's poems such as Farewell to Friends and Tizhulang Temple are not only famous for their clear words and beautiful sentences, but also some works with profound thoughts and concern for reality. In feudal times, women, especially women like her, were rare. She has been to Songzhou, which is close to Tubo. There is a poem called "I am pregnant with Wei Linggong when I am sent to the border". The first poem said: "I heard that the border town is suffering, but now I don't know." I have no face to sing under the door and sing with the faucet. " I deeply sympathize with the hard life of border guards. Yang Shen said that it was "a poet's wonder whether there was irony but he didn't reveal it" (Sheng 'an Poetry). The catalogue of Sikuquanshu also thinks that her Bian Bian Lou has far-reaching influence and is beyond the reach of ordinary skirts. Jinjiang Collection consists of five volumes, which have been lost today. The Whole Tang Poetry records his poems 1 volume. Zhang Pengzhou, a close friend, has poems by Xue Tao. For deeds, see Chronicle of Tang Poetry and Talented Persons of Tang Dynasty.

According to "Poems of Celebrities Return", "Tao knew the tune when he was eight or nine years old. One day, his father sat in the court and pointed out that' the court is divided into an ancient tung, which hangs in the clouds', so that Tao can continue, that is,' the branches welcome the birds in the north and the south, and the leaves send the breeze'. " The sudden death of his father "shows his quick thinking." Tao lost his father in his early years and his mother was widowed. They live together and her life is extremely difficult. By the time she was 16 years old, her poems had become household names. Because of her beauty, temperament, eloquence and poetry, she was forced to make a living and became a famous poetess at that time.