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Cen Shen (岑參) (about 715-770), a Han nationality, was originally from Nanyang (now Xinye, Henan), and moved to Jiangling (now Hubei). He was a famous frontier poet in the Tang Dynasty. He was 56 years old when he died. His poems are full of romantic features, majestic, rich in imagination, magnificent in color, passionate and unrestrained, especially good at seven character songs. There are 403 existing poems, more than 70 frontier poems, one “Gan Jiu Fu”, one “Zhao Bei Ke Wen”, and two tomb inscriptions.
