Cen Can (about 7 15-770) was a frontier poet in Tang Dynasty, a native of Nanyang, the great-grandson of Cen Wenben, a hero of Emperor Taizong, and later moved to Jiangling. Cen Can was lonely and poor in his early years. He learns from his brother and reads history books. Tang Xuanzong was a scholar in Tianbao three years (744). At the beginning, he led the government soldier Cao to join the army. After joining the army twice, he first served as the secretary of the shogunate of Gao Xianzhi in Anxi. At the end of Tianbao, Feng Changqing was the judge of the shogunate when he was the minister of Anxi North Hospital. During the reign of Emperor Zong, Zeng Guan was the secretariat of History (now Leshan, Sichuan), which was called "Cen Jiazhou". He died in Chengdu in the fifth year of Dali (770).
His poems are longer than seven-character metrical poems, and his masterpiece is Song of Snow to Send Tian Shuji Wu Home. There are 360 existing poems. He has cordial feelings for frontier fortress scenery, military life and cultural customs of ethnic minorities, so his frontier fortress poems are particularly excellent. The style is similar to that of Gao Shi, and later generations often call it "Gao Cen". There are ten volumes in The Collection of Cen Can, which have been lost. There are seven volumes (or eight volumes) of Cenjiazhou Collection. The Complete Tang Poetry consists of four volumes.