Li Bai's contemporaries, such as Li Bai's uncle, a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty, Li Bai's poetry friend, Wei Wan, editor and preface author of Li Hanlin Li Bai's Poems, and Fan Lun, son of Li Bai's best friend, all think that Li Bai is a Shu person. Li wrote in the preface to the collection of thatched cottage: "Li Bai, whose word is Taibai, is from Longxi, and Shenlong first fled to Sichuan." Fan also wrote in "Tang Zuo picks up the tombstone of Hanlin bachelor Li": "The public name is white, and the words are too white. He was born in western Gansu. He was born at the beginning of Shenlong, and he returned to Guanghan, because overseas Chinese are all from this county. "
Reading Li Bai's poems, we can also see that the great poet himself thinks he is a Shu person. For example, the poem "Seeing Friends Off at Jingmen Ferry" says "Sail to Jingmen Ferry to sleep. At the end of the mountain range and the beginning of the plain, the river winds through the wilderness. The moon rises like a mirror, and the sea clouds twinkle like palaces. Distant hometown water, row your boat for three hundred miles. " This is a poem written by Li Bai when he left Shu and crossed the Three Gorges to Jingzhou. He called the Yangtze River water washed down from the Three Gorges "hometown water".
It can be seen that Li Bai regards Bashu in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River as his hometown. For another example, in the History of Shang 'an Peichang, Li Bai wrote: "Seeing that the villagers seem to boast a cloud dream with seven clouds, let me see how it is." They are called their relatives, but they are from Chengdu, Shu County. It can be seen that Li Bai also regarded himself as a Shu person. When you come to qinglian town, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province, you can see a lot of materials that can prove that this is the hometown of Li Bai. There is a Kuangshan in the northwest of the town, which is said to be the place where Li Bai's teenagers study. Half a mile west of the town, there is the "Longmen", the former residence of Li Bai, which was rebuilt during the reign of Qing Qianlong. There is a full moon tomb of Li Bai's sister in the backyard.
There is a couplet in the courtyard: "My brother's tomb still exists, not Mohist wandering;" Art and literature can be tested, and this native place is the former residence. "Facing the Longxi Courtyard, near the north bank of Panjiang River, there is Taibai Temple built in Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. In the west of Jiangyou County, there is also a Chang Gung Temple. There is a preface written by Yang Sui, a poet of the Song Dynasty, for the Monument to the Old House in Zhangming County, which reads: "My teacher once lived in Qinglian Township". At the end of the inscription, it reads "Five Years of Chunhua Song Taizong". The other piece is said to be an inscription of Li Bai's To Jiang Youwei written by Mi Fei, a great calligrapher in the Song Dynasty. There are as many as twenty or thirty places in Jiangyou County. Qu Yi, the editor of Jiangyou County Order and Jiangyou County Records in Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, once wrote: "Kuangshan is next to Fujiang, and there is a hometown of fallen immortals. My father said for me, "I'm not dead." All these materials tell people that Li Bai's native place is in Shu.
However, in the twenties and thirties of this century, the academic circles launched a campaign.
197 1 year, Guo Moruo proposed in the book Li's Birthplace and Birthplace that Li Bai was "born in the city of broken leaves in Central Asia, located in tokmak, Kazakhstan, the present Soviet Union. In order to prove that his argument is accurate, he also clarified the contradiction between his argument and the documents recorded in the Tang Dynasty. He believes that "the Tang Dynasty had two leaves: one in Central Asia and the other in Yanqi". Judging from the time when the city was built, the broken leaves of Li Bai's birth can only be broken leaves of Central Asia, probably not broken leaves of Yanqi. Guo Moruo's theory of "broken leaves in Central Asia" has received numerous responses. Many people write articles to affirm and supplement this argument.
In recent years,