Cen Can was born in a bureaucratic family. He is a scholar, but he has never been appreciated and reused. So he devoted himself to the Duhu government and served as a military attache and judge at the border. After leaving the frontier fortress, Cen Can walked up and down in his official career, and was not reused. In his later years, he died in a foreign land.
Among other poems, frontier fortress poems are the best. For example, the famous poem "Spring breeze comes, night comes, and ten thousand pears blow away" in Bai Xuege's Farewell to Tian Shuji's hometown describes the beautiful snow scene in the frontier fortress area, while "Song of the Horse River Farewell to General Feng of the Western Expedition" shows the beautiful scenery of the frontier fortress.