His landscape poems in the middle of Shu are quiet and romantic, which shows the author's lonely situation and complicated mentality in his later years. The theme of Cen Can's poems involves narrative, questions and answers, landscapes and travels, among which frontier poems are the most outstanding, and "grandeur" is its outstanding feature. Cen Can went to frontier fortress twice and wrote more than 70 frontier fortress poems. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, he wrote the most frontier poems and made the most outstanding achievements.
Cen Can
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).
In terms of literary creation, Cen Can's poems are good at seven-character quatrains, and he has a cordial feeling for frontier fortress scenery, military life and exotic cultural customs, especially frontier fortress poems.