Gao Shi's most famous frontier fortress poems are as follows:
1. "Song of Yingzhou"
The young man in Yingzhou is tired of the wilderness, and hunts under the city with his fur covered with velvet. A thousand hours of wine will not intoxicate anyone, and Hu'er can ride a horse at the age of ten.
2. "On the Fortress"
Leaving Lulongsai in the east, the vast guest feels lonely. There are thousands of pavilions and fortresses lined up, and the Han soldiers are still preparing for the Hu. The dust on the edge rises into the northern sky, and the captives are riding due south. Fighting is not a long-term strategy, and marriage is not a long-term plan. But in the past, General Li left the imperial capital on a regular basis. The general army swept across the desert and captured Shanyu in one battle. Always be grateful and willing to do the best you can. Who is leaning against the sword to speak? The Guanhe River is empty and gloomy.
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Gao Shi (?-765), courtesy name Dafu, was born in Bohai Quan (now Jingxian County, Hebei Province). The grandson of Gao Kan, the governor of Anton, was a minister and frontier poet in the mid-Tang Dynasty.
Gao Shi's family was poor in his early years. In his prime, he lived in the Liang and Song Dynasties and socialized with Li Bai, Du Fu and others. When he was nearly 50 years old, he was recommended by others to enter the official career. He was appointed as the captain of Fengqiu County and soon resigned. In the eleventh year of Tianbao (752), he went to Hexi Jiedushi Geshu Hanmuzhong and served as the secretary in charge. In the fourteenth year of Tianbao's reign (755), he served as the governor of Jiang County. In the Yuan Zai of De (756), he was promoted to admonish the officials.
Soon he was appointed as the military governor of Huainan and was ordered to attack Yongwang Li Lin. In the second year of Qianyuan (759), he became the governor of Pengzhou. In the first year of Shangyuan (760), he was transferred to the governor of Shuzhou. In the first year of Guangde (763), he took office as the Jiedushi envoy of Xichuan in Jiannan and the Jiedushi of Dongchuan.
In the second year of Guangde (764), he should be recalled to Beijing and served as Minister of Punishment, Changshi of Sanqi, Gaoyin Qingguanglu doctor, and be granted the title of Marquis of Bohai County, with a settlement of 700 households. In the first year of Yongtai (765), Gao Shi died. As a gift to the Minister of Rites, he was given the posthumous title "Zhong".
Gao Shi is an outstanding representative of the poets of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His works not only carry the grand and heroic momentum of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also reveal characteristics that are different from other poets of the same era. After his first failure in taking the examination in Chang'an, he chose to live in the middle of the Song Dynasty. At this time, the deep loss and sadness caused by his unrecognized talents and his inability to serve the country gave his works a desolate and tragic artistic style.
While traveling in Yan and Zhao, the poet saw a lot of resentful things. He wrote a series of poems exposing the reality such as "Five Poems on Jimen" with full of grief. When he lived in Qishang, he was deeply touched by pastoral life and wrote many pastoral poems reflecting the reality. He is the author of "Farewell to Wei Joining the Army", "Yan Ge Xing", "Farewell to Dong Da", "Feng Qiu Zuo", etc.