Cen Can (about 7 15-770), a frontier poet in Tang Dynasty, was the great-grandson of Cen Wenben, a hero of Emperor Taizong, and later moved to Jiangling, Jingzhou (now Jiangling, Hubei). [1-2] Cen Can grew up alone, learning from his brother and reading historical records. 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. In the case of Zongshi, Zeng Guan was the secretariat of Jiazhou (now Leshan, Sichuan), which was called "Cenjiazhou" [2]. He died in Chengdu in the fifth year of Dali (770). [3-5]
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.