Personal data:

Gao Shi (704-765) was born in Bohai (now Jingxian County, Hebei Province). Anton is the grandson of Gao Kan, a famous minister and frontier poet in the middle Tang Dynasty.

Gao Shi was poor in his early years, lived in Liang and Song Dynasties, and made friends with Li Bai and Du Fu. At the age of 50, Zhong Youke was recommended to enter the official career, was appointed as Fengqiu county magistrate, and resigned soon. In the 11th year of Tianbao (752), he went to Hexi as the secretary of the envoy Geshuhan shogunate.

In the 14th year of Tianbao (755), he was the chief history of Jiangjun County. Zhizai (756) admonished the doctor. Soon, he served as the special envoy of Huainan and was ordered to crusade against Li Lin in Wang Yong.

In the second year of Gan Yuan (759), he went to Pengzhou as a secretariat. In the first year of Shangyuan (760), Zhou Shu was appointed as the secretariat. In the first year of Guangde (763), he was appointed as our ambassador to build Nanxichuan and take photos of Dongchuan. Guangde two years (764), recalled to Beijing, as assistant minister of punishments.

Gao Shi is an outstanding representative of poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. His works not only have the vigorous momentum of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, but also reveal the characteristics different from other poets of his time. He chose to live in the Song Dynasty after being frustrated in the first Chang 'an exam. At this time, his works are deeply lost and sad because of his lack of talent and inability to serve the country, showing a desolate and sad artistic style.

When the poet traveled in Zhao Yan, he saw many things that made people angry and resentful. He wrote a series of poems that revealed the reality, such as Five Poems of Thistle Gate, which were full of sadness. When he lived in Shang Qi, he felt the pastoral life and wrote many pastoral poems reflecting the reality. He is the author of Farewell to the Army, Yan Gexing, Farewell to the Great, Feng Qiu Left and so on.

Main work

Gao Shi's poems and essays were collected in the Tang Dynasty and circulated in the Northern Song Dynasty, and were widely circulated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties with many versions. What we can see now are mainly eight volumes of the Ming Dynasty bronze movable-type book "Poems of Gaochang" and four volumes of Gao Shi's poems collected in Quantang Poetry Talk. The number of poems is similar, but the content is different.

The contemporary edition mainly includes Liu Kaiyang's Notes on the Chronology of Gao Shi's Poems published by Zhonghua Book Company 198 1, with 244 poems and 19 essays as the base.

And Sun Qinshan's Collation of Gao Shi Ji published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House 1984, with 249 poems and 9 articles 19. In addition, the Collection of Poems by Li Dan Gao Shi published by Chongwen Bookstore in 2020 includes 258 poems (including 12 poems by mistake) and 2 essays1article.