Speaking of poetry, for five thousand years in China, the only one who can deserve the title of "Poetic Immortal" is Li Bai. Li Bai's countless works have been handed down to later generations, so does he have any descendants left? In Dongyinzhuang Village, an ordinary rural area in Jiangsu Province, the farmers here keep saying that they are descendants of Li Bai. It attracted countless media to come here to interview and follow up, and they even produced family trees as evidence.

All of this starts with a 79-year-old man named Li Yutang. Before Li Yutang retired, he was also the first college student in Dongyinzhuang. In 2005, Li Yutang met a family member named Li. During the exchange, the two talked about the seniority of the surnamed Li. Li Yutang claimed that he was the 20th grandson of the Li family, but the other party pointed out that Li Yutang's surname was not authentic. The Li family was an ancient surname, and his ancestor was Lao Tzu Li Er. His 20th generation was only 600 years old at most. How could it be passed down to Li Yutang? You here. After hearing these words, Li Yutang also wanted to find out the origin of his surname, so he decided to rebuild his family tree.

Li Yutang returned to the village and found the "Genealogy of the Origin of the Li Family" in the village ancestral hall. After carefully studying his family tree, he found this sentence in it, which roughly means: The ancestor of the villagers in Dongyinzhuang is named Li Fan, who is a direct descendant of Li Bai. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, they moved here from Nanjing and passed on to the 17th generation in the ninth year of Xianfeng.

The news that Li Bai's descendants appeared in Jiangsu also caused an uproar in the cultural and historical circles across the country. According to historical records of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai's son was named Boqin, and Boqin had a son and two daughters.

Fifty-eight years after Li Bai's death, in 820 AD, Fan Chuanzheng, son of Li Bai's good friend Fan Lun, once searched for Li Bai's descendants. But in the end, only Li Bai's two granddaughters were found. As for Li Bai's only grandson, the two said that he ran away from home in his early years and had been missing for many years without any news. Therefore, Professor Yu concluded that Li Bai had no descendants as early as the Tang Dynasty, and there were no descendants.