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 special
Cen Can's works and poems are good at seven-character metrical poems, with novel artistic conception, peculiar style, great momentum, rich imagination, magnificent words, enthusiasm and romance.
The themes of his poems involve narrating ambitions, answering questions, landscapes and traveling, among which frontier poems are the most important-in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Cen Can created the most frontier poems and made the most outstanding achievements.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cen Can