Xiao Yue was born in Lanling (now Lanling Town, Cangshan County, Shandong Province). A famous painter in the middle Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Yue is good at calligraphy and painting, especially bamboo, which is very distinctive. China ink painting originated from Li Longji, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and his successor Xiao Yue. At that time, Xiao Yue's ink bamboo paintings were second to none and unparalleled. Xiao Yue himself regards it as a treasure. Someone asked him for a painting several times, but he refused. Xiao Yue's ink bamboo was hard to find at that time, and it was a masterpiece. Apart from the fact that Emperor Taizong, who prefers boys to girls, really painted well, he also benefited from Bai Juyi's poem Painting Bamboo Songs, just as Cao Ba benefited from Du Fu's poems, which made his works widely circulated. At that time, Xiao Yue wrote 15 pole for Bai Juyi (772-846), and Bai Juyi also wrote three poems for him, which greatly praised Xiao Yue's Zhu Mo. Bai Juyi thought in "Introduction to Painting Bamboo Songs": "Xie Lulang Xiao Yue painted ink bamboo, and at that time he was incoherent. Small and secretive, asking for help all the year round. I suddenly wrote fifteen strokes and suddenly saw the vote. Give it a thick art, high art, no answer, write a song to report it, where there is the word 186. " Bai Juyi said that his ink bamboo paintings are "lifelike", thin and full, and even reach the level of "unlike paintings" at first glance, which makes people feel like they are in a bamboo forest. In Bai Juyi's poem "The meaning of drunkenness is not for wine, but for Xiao Yin and He", Xiao Yue was down and out all her life, but she was loyal to art and made great achievements. Zhang Yanyuan, a painter and theorist in the Tang Dynasty, also spoke highly of Xiao Yue's works. Said he was "elegant and elegant." ("Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties") "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum" says that he "enjoys painting bamboo, wins the business of bamboo and is famous in the world." There is a similar record in "Painting Treasures". It is said that Xiao Yue's ink bamboo works, once inscribed by celebrities, have doubled in value.