Education
Probably she had some literary education from her father and later developed the skills thankful to opportunity to to learn from practicing poets.
Probably she had some literary education from her father and later developed the skills thankful to opportunity to to learn from practicing poets.
Xue was registered with the guild of courtesans and entertainers in Chengdu and in time became well known for her wit and her poetic talent. Her poetry attracted the attention of Wei Gao, the military governor of Chengdu, Sichuan. Thankful to the protection of such influential persons as General Wei Gao, Commissioner Wu Yuanheng and Chief Minister Yuan Zhen Xue Tao was assigned to the post of Editing Clerk, a most unusual position for a woman at the time, probably she was the first woman on the such a high position. As most unmarried Tang women Xue Tao became a Daoist nun and died in the summer of 832