Editing Li Bai (section)

===Death===
[[File:LiBaimemorialhall000.jpg|thumb|right|Li Bai Memorial Hall in [[Jiangyou]], Sichuan]]
The new [[Emperor Daizong]] appointed Li Bai as a court counsellor in January 764, but by the time the imperial edict arrived in [[Dangtu County|Dangtu, Anhui]], Li Bai had already been reported dead for more than a year. Local authorities, however, were only able to ascertain that he died sometime in 762, with the date and cause of his death lost to history.<ref name="Paris Review">{{cite news|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/01/23/the-poet-with-many-names-and-many-deaths/|first=Jin|last=Ha|newspaper=[[The Paris Review]]|title=The Poet with Many Names—and Many Deaths|date=23 January 2019|access-date=9 April 2024}}</ref>

Later writers speculated about Li's death. The ninth-century Tang poet [[Pi Rixiu]] suggested in a poem that Li had died of chronic thoracic suppuration (pus entering the chest cavity).<ref name="Paris Review"/> According to another source, Li Bai drowned after falling from his boat one day while drunk, as he tried to embrace the reflection of the moon in the Yangtze River.<ref name="Wu, 61"/>