Gao Shi (about 704-765) was born in Bohai County (now Jingxian County, Hebei Province) in Tang Dynasty, and later moved to Song Cheng, Songzhou (now Suiyang, Shangqiu, Henan Province). He is a famous frontier poet in Tang Dynasty, known as Gao Chang's poems, and is also called "Gao Cen" with Cen Can. He, Cen Can, Wang Changling and Wang Zhihuan are also called "four frontier poets". There is a collection of Gaochang Stones handed down from generation to generation. The Five Immortals Temple in Yuwangtai in Kaifeng is dedicated to Gao Shi, Li Bai, Du Fu, He Jingming and Li Mengyang.
He used to be an assistant minister of punishments, a regular waiter of Sanshou, and a magistrate of Bohai County. His poems are vigorous and full of the unique spirit of the times in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Style:
Gao Shi's Poems of Cen Can is vigorous and solemn, which is a remarkable feature of Gao Shi's frontier poems. His poems are quality-oriented, magnificent and simple. Lofty and lonely, he has the spirit of a ranger. He once roamed Liang and Song Dynasties and devoted himself to self-sufficiency. In addition, he is generous and upright, so his poems reflect a wide range of aspects and profound themes. Gao Shi's psychological structure is extensive, and his personality is straightforward, so his poems often express his mind directly, or talk to each other, and rarely use metaphors.
Gao Shi's poems focus on people rather than the natural landscape, so he seldom writes about scenery, and when he expresses his feelings, he is often accompanied by the part of writing about scenery, so this scene bears the poet's personal subjective imprint. "Song of Yan" describes the bleak scene with "autumn is exhausted in the dust and sand, the grass is withered, and the sun is setting on the lonely wall", and contrasts it with the desert, hay, lonely city and sunset, forming a picture full of subjective feelings, which makes the heroic and tragic battle of the soldiers more intense. Gao Shi uses simple words in his language style without carving.