Xue Tao (approximately 768-832 AD) was a female poet of the Tang Dynasty, with the courtesy name Hongdu. He was born in Chang’an (now Xi’an, Shaanxi). After his father Xue Yun became an official and came to Shu, Xue Tao lived in Chengdu after his father’s death. When living in Chengdu, the highest local military and political commander in Chengdu, Jiannan Xichuan Jiedushi, had been replaced eleven times, and most of them had literary exchanges with Xue Tao.
薛涛（约768～832年），唐代女诗人，字洪度。长安（今陕西西安）人。因父亲薛郧做官而来到蜀地，父亲死后薛涛居于成都。居成都时，成都的最高地方军政长官剑南西川节度使前后更换十一届，大多与薛涛有诗文往来。
薛涛·《蝉》
露涤音清远，风吹故叶齐。
声声似相接，各在一枝栖。
Cicadas
Xue Tao
Dew drops bathe their clear, distant tones
When wind blows together a few leaves.
Sound after sound seems closely joined,
Though each lives on a different branch.
（Anthony C. Yu 译）
Cicadas
Xue Tao
The clear, pure sounds of dripping dew
carry far away;
withered leaves blown by the wind
pile up day by day.
The chirping of each insect
seems to join with the rest,
even if every one of them
has a separate nest.
（Bannie Chow, Thomas Cleary 译）
