The content is different: Gao Shi's poems reflect the depth of reality, while Cen Can's poems reflect the record of life more; Language styles are different: Gao Shi's poems are vigorous, while Cen Can's poems are fantastic; Different artistic skills: Gao Shi often speaks his mind and expresses reality; However, Cen Can's frontier poems often use exaggeration to express romantic feelings.
Gao Shi had the same experience of military life, which laid a solid foundation for their frontier poems. Their poems are full of heroic spirit of serving the country generously and the spirit of struggling despite difficulties. They learned about the psychology of recruiting people and the strange customs of frontier fortress in the lonely smoke in the desert and the sunset in the long river, which inspired their creative enthusiasm.
Their creative styles are very extensive, including archaic poems, modern poems, regular poems and quatrains. And they are especially good at seven-character ancient poems. Poems with different contents have profound thoughts and strong practical significance; Cen Can's poems mainly describe the strange frontier scenery and different frontier life. Different Language Styles From the perspective of language style, Gao Shi's poems are vigorous, while Cen Can's poems are fantastic. Different artistic skills often directly express their feelings and reality; However, Cen Can's frontier poems often use exaggeration to express romantic feelings.
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.