Gao Qi, born in 1336- 1374, was a famous poet in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. His name was Ji Di and Cha Xuan, and he was from Changzhou. Gao Qi is brilliant, knowledgeable and literate, especially good at poetry. He, Liu Ji and Song Lian are also called "the great poets in the third day of Ming Dynasty", and Yang Ji, Zhang Yu and Xu Ben are also called "four outstanding poets in Wuzhong". At that time, critics compared them to "four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty".
Gao Qi's works are rich, including a large number of poems, including more than 2,000 poems in five episodes, which were edited into 937 songs by himself. In the first year of Jingtai, Xu Yong collected his legacy and compiled it into the Complete Works of Gao Taishi (volume 18). Gao Qi's ci was compiled as "Collection of Anti-Arrest Prescriptions" and the text was compiled as "Collection of Gully Algae", which was published in the world.
Gao Qi's poems absorbed the strengths of many schools of thought and were not paranoid. Moreover, his poems simply and truly reflect people's lives and are full of life breath. Judging from the poetic style, his works, which are nostalgic or expressive, are endowed with deep feelings and are unrestrained. Gao Qi's greatest achievement in literature is that under the unfavorable environment that romantic novels and operas became the mainstream culture in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, he alone shouldered the burden of developing poetry, changed the gaudy poetic style since the end of Yuan Dynasty and promoted the continuous development of poetry. Because Gao Qi's poems have a wide influence on the poems of the Ming Dynasty, some people regard him as the "crown of poets in the Ming Dynasty". Ji Xiaolan praised Gao Qi's "genius is superior to the poets of Ming Dynasty, and his poems are similar to those of Han, Wei, Six Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties, and the ancients have all their strengths" in the Summary of Sikuquanshu. Zhao Yi, a poet in A Qing, also praised Gao Qi as "the first poet in the founding of the People's Republic of China" in his Poems on Oubei.