Abstract: For a long period, people held that Li Bai died in the first year of Baoying of Emperor Daizong of the Tang Dynasty. In 1983 Mr. Li Congjun first posed that Li Bai did not die in the f irst year of Baoying. Based on an analysis on Li Yangbing's “Preface to Cottage Collections”, Li Hua’s “Epi taph for the LateMember of the Imperial Acade” my Li Jun, and Li Bai's  Self Recommendation to Prime Minister Zong, this paper puts forward that Li Bai did not die in the first year of Baoying, but in the first year of Yongtai of Emperor Daizong.

Key words: Li Bai, the death year, the first year of Baoying, the first year of Yongtai