General Li Taren’s Epitaph Inscribed by the Commander of the Rightflank Imperial Guard Troops was unearthed in the eastern suburbs of Xi’an in 1989. Sun Tieshan, a scholar of the Archaeological Academy of Shaanxi province, once copied the epitaph and tried to investigate and explain it. However, since the rubbing of the epitaph has not been delivered publicly yet, and the copied version involves several problems, the academic world has not offered any fresh investigation and explanation. The author of this paper studied many epitaphs of the Tang Dynasty unearthed in recent years and available library sources, and referred to Sun’s copied version. He analyzed and identified “Shanzhou” and “Shancheng” in historical sources and determined that Li Taren was not a Mojie as someone had thought, but came from a hereditary bureaucrat Korean Family. He surrendered to the Tang Dynasty when the allied troops of the Tang and the Xinluo were to launch largescale attacks. Moreover, the paper made deep studies of the description in the epitaph, the final rank and time of death of the dead as well as problems in the record about Li’s offspring.

the Tang Dynasty epitaph; Li Taren’s epitaph; “Zhanzhou”; “Zhancheng”; Korean immigrants