Cen Can was a poet in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Cen Can was an outstanding representative of frontier poets in China in the Tang Dynasty. He was originally from Nanyang (now in Xinye, Henan Province). He was born in 715 and died in 77. Cen Can was lonely and poor when he was a child. At the age of five, Cen Can followed his brother to study and read widely. At the age of nine, he can write poetry and prose.
In the third year of Tianbao (744), he was a scholar. At first, he led Cao, a government soldier, to join the army. Later, he joined the army on the frontier twice. At first, he served as the secretary of the Gao Xianzhi shogunate, the envoy of Anxi, and then Feng Changqing served as the judge of the Feng Changqing shogunate at the end of Tianbao.
when he was in Tang Daizong, he was the secretariat of history (now Leshan, Sichuan), so he was called "Cen Jiazhou" in the world. He died in Chengdu in the fifth year of Dali (77) at the age of 56.
main achievements
Cen Can's works poems are good at seven-character songs and have a cordial feeling for frontier scenery, military life and foreign cultural customs, so his frontier poems are especially excellent.
Cen Can's poems are full of romantic features, magnificent momentum, rich imagination, magnificent colors, passionate and unrestrained, especially good at seven-character songs. The theme of his poems involves narrating ambition, giving answers, mountains and rivers, traveling and so on, among which frontier fortress poems are the best. "Magnificent and magnificent" is its outstanding feature, and it also has the characteristics of vivid exaggeration, impassioned, magnificent, magnificent, rich imagination and freely changing language.