Traditional Chinese 高適 Jyutping Gou Sik Simplified Chinese 高适 Name Gao Shi | Hanyu Pinyin Role Poet Wade–Giles Kao Shih | |
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Gao Shi (ca. 704–765) was a poet of the Tang Dynasty, two of whose poems were collected in the popular anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems. His courtesy name was Tàfú (達夫).
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Born into an impoverished family, Gao eventually became a secretary in the military, enjoying a successful career. His hometown was either in modern Hunan Province or Shandong Province.
Gao Shi was one of the competitors in the famous wine shop competition along with Wang Zhihuan and Wang Changling.
Poems
One of Gao Shi's poems (as translated by Witter Bynner), appearing in the Tang 300 was "A Song of the Yan Country", referring to the Yan territory of the An and Shi "Yan dynasty": the other being "To Vice-prefects Li and Wang degraded and transferred to Xiazhong and Changsha".
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