Does Li Bai have the same ancestor as Li Yuan?

Li Bai said that he was from Chengji, Longxi, which is the Tianshui area of ??Gansu Province. He claimed to be the ninth grandson of Liang Wuzhao King Li during the Xiliang period. Li Bai himself said in the second part of "Two Poems to Zhang Xianghao": "I am from Longxi, and I was a Han border general first. His achievements were so great that he became famous in the sky." A descendant of Li Guang, the flying general of the Han Dynasty, settled in Longxi. He is the sixteenth generation grandson of Li Guang. He supported the army in Dunhuang and Jiuquan and became independent, and he was named Liang Gong. After his death, the people of the country gave him the posthumous title of King Wuzhao. Interestingly, the ancestors of the emperors of the Li and Tang dynasties were also Li. Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was the seventh generation grandson of Li, and Li Longji, the emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, was the eleventh generation grandson of Li. If calculated this way, Li Bai's seniority is very high. Xuanzong still had to call Li Bai his clan grandfather. However, according to the poems and articles about Li Bai's interactions with many nobles of the Li and Tang clans, he often called each other by titles such as clan uncle, clan brother, clan brother, clan nephew, etc. It can be seen from this title that Li Bai himself also ranked seniority. Very messy. For example, sometimes he calls someone brother, but he is actually two generations older than that person; sometimes he calls someone uncle, but actually he may be four generations older than that person. The most typical one is Li Yangbing. In terms of seniority, Li Bai should be the same generation as Li Yangbing, but he called Li Yangbing "uncle", thus lowering himself a generation. According to Li Bai's autobiography in "History of Shang'an Prefecture Pei Chang", after Li's death, his son Li Xin ascended the throne, but was quickly defeated by another warlord force, Juqu Mengxun. Li Xin's younger brother Li Xun, who claimed to be the champion general and the governor of Liangzhou, was later killed by Juqu Mengxun. At this time, a branch of Li Bai's family fled to the Weishui area of ??Chang'an. When his sixth generation ancestor arrived, he moved to Suiye City. Li Bai was born in Suiye City. Later he moved to Sichuan with his father. After such a turbulent migration, the possibility of losing the family tree is very high. Therefore, even if Li Bai himself knew that he was the ninth grandson of King Wuzhao of Liang, when it came to specifically who he was senior to and who he was junior to, since the family tree and genealogy were gone, there was no written evidence, so it was easy to happen. Confused. Perhaps it is for this reason that Li Bai has never been able to establish a legal kinship relationship with the Tang royal family, and has never been confirmed by the Zongzheng Temple of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Royal Archives. His name has never been found in that archive. membership. Li Bai actually has a chance to be included in the royal archives. In the first year of Tianbao of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 742), Xuanzong followed the advice of official Li Yanyun and listed the descendants of the four princes of Jiangjun, Guzang, Dunhuang and Wuyang of Li Empress in Zongzheng Temple. In other words, the descendants of these four princes, They are the official relatives of the emperor. Li Bai was in Chang'an at that time and was highly regarded by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. After he left Chang'an in the third year of Tianbao, he also went to Beihai to study Taoism with Li Yanyun, and the two had a close relationship. Therefore, if he has formal legally valid certification materials or a systematic family tree, he will definitely be included in Zongzheng Temple. The lack of necessary certification materials should be one of the important reasons why he is not included. From this point of view, there are only two possibilities for Li Bai's family background: First, Li Bai's family is indeed the descendant of Li, but due to their migration back and forth, the family tree has been lost, making it difficult to self-prove, and Li Bai himself is not very clear about it. Second, for some political purpose, Li Bai's family clings to the imperial family and pretends to be the queen of Li. Because there was this trend in the Tang Dynasty, everyone likes to cling to dragons and phoenixes, and their surname is Li. They say that our family is from Chengji, Longxi, and is King Wuzhao of Liang. descendants. But I think it is unlikely that Li Bai pretends to cling. Because when Li Bai was still alive, he had close contacts with some members of the Li Tang royal family and nobles. He often called them brothers and sisters in poems and articles, and ranked them in terms of seniority. However, no one or any evidence showed that anyone had ever questioned, exposed, or reported Li Bai's true identity. In the absence of further evidence, we can only believe Li Bai's self-report for the time being and believe that he is a descendant of King Wuzhao of Liang and a lineage of the royal family of Li and Tang. After talking about Li Bai’s ancestral family genealogy, let’s talk about Li Bai’s father. It is difficult to know the name of Li Bai's father, and his identity is uncertain. Some say he is a county captain, some say he is a businessman, some say he is a knight, and some say he is a hermit. We only know that the locals call him "Li Ke". Fan Chuanzheng said in "The Preface to the Tombstone of Li Gongxin, a Hanlin Scholar from Zuo Tang Dynasty": "My father was a guest in his town, so he named it a guest. He lived in the clouds and did not ask for a salary." That is to say, Li Bai's father took refuge and avoided hatred. Fleeing to Sichuan, he was worried about causing trouble, so he stayed in a small place in Qinglian Township, Changlong County, Mianzhou and lived in seclusion without seeking an official position.

Since he was living in seclusion, he did not leave his real name. He only knew how to call him a guest, which was what the locals called him, because to the locals he was a guest. ...There are several theories, but there is currently no conclusion: Chengji people in Longxi (near Gansu), this is what his descendants said when compiling their genealogy, and related Li Bai to Li Yuan, the founder of the Tang Dynasty. There is inevitably something far-fetched about this. Li Bai's father traveled in West Asia and later settled in Shu. Chen Yinke's investigation said that Li Bai was from Sichuan or Central Asia (today's Kyrgyzstan), and this statement was agreed by most people. Guo Moruo also said that he was from Central Asia.