Gao Shi (about 724 AD to 779 AD) was a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty. Gao Shi was born in today's Bin County, Shaanxi Province, and is the younger brother of Gao Pian, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. Gao Shi is famous for his bold poetic style, advocating true feelings and expressing his chest directly. Most of Gao Shi's poems describe wars, battles and soldiers' lives, and criticize political corruption and social injustice.
Gao Shi's works are passionate, vigorous and bold, and often show the indifference of the world and the warmth of human feelings with rich imagination and unique expression techniques. Gao Shi's works are famous for Leaving the Tomb of Prime Minister Fang and Farewell to Fu Degu. Gao Shi's poetic style influenced many later poets and was regarded as one of the representatives of the "bold school" in the Tang Dynasty.
Gao Shi's main achievements:
1, unique style: Gao Shi's poetic style is bold and passionate, with a strong personal style. Gao Shi's poems often take war, expedition and soldier's life as themes, and express the cruelty of war and the good and evil of human nature with forceful and touching brushstrokes.
2. Reflect the social reality: Gao Shi's poems show the criticism of political corruption and social injustice, and reflect the realistic problems of the society at that time. Highly applicable poems express his concern for society and his pursuit of true feelings.
3. Influence on later generations: Gao Shi's poems have a certain influence on later poets. Gao Shi's works are unrestrained and full of passion, and some later poets, such as Du Fu and Bai Juyi, formed their own unique creative style.
4. Inheriting the cultural tradition: Gao Shi's poems inherited the cultural tradition of the Tang Dynasty, showing the social outlook and people's living conditions at that time. Gao Shi expressed his thoughts on society and human nature through his poems, which broadened the expression of Tang literature.