Cen Can (7 18? -769? ), a native of Jiangling, Jingzhou (now jiangling county, Hubei) or Jiyang, Nanyang (now Nanyang, Henan), a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was also called "Gao Cen" with Gao Shi.
Cen Can was born in a bureaucratic family. He studied at the age of five and became a scholar at the age of nine, because he was smart and wise early. In the third year of Tianbao (744), he won the top prize, and was awarded the military power of Cao Can, the leader of the government, three years later. After that, he joined the army twice, first as the secretary of Anxi Gao Xianzhi shogunate, and then as the judge of Anxi Feng Changqing shogunate at the end of Tianbao.
At that time, Cen Can was a secretariat of history (now Leshan City, Sichuan Province), so it was called "Cen History". In the autumn and winter of 769, Cen Can died in Chengdu at the age of 52 (5 1).
Cen Can's two expeditions to the frontier fortress, under the control of his bold and lofty sentiments, vividly displayed the strange scenery and customs of the northwest desert with bold and heroic style and unique artistic techniques, further developed the unprecedented characteristics of openness and novelty, had unique magnificent beauty, broke through the traditional mode of writing frontier fortress poems in the past, and greatly enriched and broadened the description theme and content scope of frontier fortress poems.