Cen Can (Cenjiazhou, about 7 15 -770) was the great-grandson of Cen Wenben, a hero of Emperor Taizong's reign, a frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty, and was also called "Gao Cen" with Gao Shi. His frontier poems are particularly outstanding, and his masterpiece is Song of Snow to Send Tian Shuji Wu Home.
Cen Can's early poems were mostly about scenery, lyricism and response. The style of landscape poems is beautiful and elegant, which is quite close to He Xun's, but the language is strange and the artistic conception is novel. Sentimentality, lamenting poverty and indignation are also strong. For example, I feel that I met by chance, I was careful, I walked in the mountains in late autumn, and I went to the girder but sent the crazy city master.
Six years' frontier life has broadened Cen Can's poetic realm and further developed his novel features. Magnificent romance became the keynote of his frontier poems. He not only warmly praised Tang Jun's bravery and exploits, but also euphemistically exposed the cruelty and misery of the war.