Li Bai's ancestral home is Ji Cheng (now Qin 'an County, Gansu Province). At the end of Sui Dynasty, he moved to Broken Leaf City in Central Asia (now near tokmak in northern Kyrgyzstan), where Li Bai was born.
At the age of five, his family moved to Zhangming County, Mianzhou (now jiangyou city, Sichuan).
At the age of twenty, he left Sichuan alone and began to wander widely, starting from Xiangjiang River in Dongting in the south and living in Anlu (now Anlu County, Hubei Province) in wuyue in the east.
He traveled around, hoping to make friends and visit celebrities, so as to get an introduction, climb to a high position in one fell swoop and realize his political ideals and ambitions. However, after ten years of wandering, he got nothing.
In the early years of Tianbao, on the recommendation of Taoist Wu Renyun, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty called him to Beijing and ordered him to worship the Hanlin. Soon after, due to the regret of the dignitaries, he was expelled from Beijing in Tianbao for three or four years (AD 744 or 745). Since then, he has been wandering between Jianghuai, and his thoughts are extremely boring.
In the winter of the 14th year of Tianbao (AD 755), during the Anshi Rebellion, he lived in seclusion in Lushan Mountain at the moment, which coincided with the siege of Li Lin's army in Wang Yong and invited Li Bai to the shogunate. Later, Li Lin's rebellion against Su Zong was destroyed, and Li Bai was implicated and sentenced to exile in Yelang (now Guizhou Province). He was pardoned and released halfway from Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) to Xuancheng (now Xuancheng, Anhui).