The owner of this tomb is Li Bai, and the family guarding Li Bai's tomb is the Gu family. Li Bai has a close relationship with the Gu family. It is said that when Li Bai was recuperating in Jinling, he accepted an apprentice named Gu Lanxin. Gu Lanxin admired Li Bai very much, but within a year of her apprenticeship, Li Bai left Hexi. Gu Lanxin was very sad. Whenever she had time, she went to Li Bai's tomb with good wine and poems she had written, and burned these poems to Li Bai.
Gu Lanxin liked poetry very much. When Li Bai was alive, she respected Li Bai very much. As we all know, the ancients believed: "One day is a teacher, and a lifetime is a father." Therefore, Gu Lanxin not only regarded Li Bai as her master, but also regarded him as her relative. After Li Bai passed away, she couldn't bear that Li Bai had no descendants to fulfill their filial piety, so she played the role of Li Bai's daughter. Day after day, year after year, Gu Lanxin is getting older, but she believes that Li Bai cannot live without someone to protect him. So, she arranged for her descendants to guard Li Bai's tomb for generations.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to repeated wars, the Gu family was displaced and wandered around. But after the war, the Gu family members remembered the teachings of their ancestors and returned to Jinling again. They continued to guard Li Bai's cemetery. They have guarded this ancient tomb for more than a thousand years, which may be a blessing from Li Bai's previous life. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, many people wanted to dig up Li Bai's grave, hoping to steal Li Bai's authentic works and gold and silver jewelry inside. However, the Gu family fought hard and they did not succeed.
Perhaps, the relationship between the Gu family and Li Bai is not just the relationship between Gu Lanxin and his master and apprentice, but also other things that have not been recorded.