This is a poem written by Wu Xuan, a poet in Qing Dynasty. Xiao mentioned in the poem is a female pastry chef named Xiao Niang in Nanmen during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. Yuan Mei, a food critic at that time, spoke highly of her. He once praised her for her "good snacks, steamed bread, cakes, jiaozi, small and lovely, as white as snow" in his "Suiyuan Food List". On the Double Ninth Festival, she specially ordered 3000 pieces of 8 kinds of snacks at home and gave them to her friends. Some scholars wrote poems praising her excellent snacks.
Her craftsmanship is superb. "She comes from a beautiful building, so she will be good at food for future generations." Delicious snacks make people "greedy". Even if you are over 50, your skill is still undiminished, and it is "as expensive as gold". It is really rare for a female pastry chef with such a high artistic foundation to see it through the ages.