李華為盛唐文學名家，但因史傳甚簡，生卒不詳，是以迄無年譜。本篇就其詩 文，作繫年考證，略定其生於玄宗開元五年左右，卒於代宗大曆九年或稍前（七一 七？?七七四？）。史或謂其貶江南後，即廢於家，實仍服官有年。又與李峴交誼 甚厚，晚節出處，多與相關；迨峴卒乃退隱。所考除訂正《兩唐書》之失，對李華 文行之解，宜有助焉。 Li Hua was an eminent man of letters in the "Sheng T'ang" period. Because of lack of sufficient historical and biographical information about his life, particular- ly about the dates of his birth and death, never was there a chrono-biograpy of him written. This article is intended to fill this gap by investigating relevant per- sonal data found in his prose and poetry. As a result of this investigation, the date of his birth is tentatively set about the fifth year (717) of the K'ai-yuan peri- od of the Hsuan-tsung reign, and the date of his death, in the ninth year (774) of the Ta-li period of the Tai-tsung reign or a little earlier. If has been said in some works of history that Li Hua remained in retire- ment at home until his death. But in fact be continuel to hold his official title and at the same time maintained a close friendly relationship with Li Hsien under whom he worked for some time. In the later years of his like, most of his activi- ties had something to do with this relationship, and he did not retire until Li Hsien died. Aside from correcting errors in 《 The Two T'ang Histories 》, This article should also help to understand the literary career of Li Hua.
