Lü Bicheng was born in Taiyuan, Shanxi in 1883 during the late Qing dynasty, but is considered a native of her ancestral home of Jingde County, Anhui by Chinese convention.

Her father Lü Fengqi [zh], who earned a jinshi degree in 1877, served as Educational Commissioner of Shanxi Province.

She went to America again in 1926, ending her Shanghai period she travel to Europe, but finally Lü Bicheng settled in Switzerland between 1927 and 1933.

[10] During her stay in Tanggu, Qing China went through the tumultuous period of the failed Hundred Days' Reform of 1898, which brought about increasing awareness of women's education, and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.

Ying Lianzhi, the Catholic Manchu nobleman who founded the newspaper, read the letter and was so impressed by it that he made her an assistant editor.

Lü Bicheng wrote a "progressive" ci that she had previously written, set to "A River Full of Red" ("Manjianghong") usually used to express heroic emotions.

[12] At the time, it was sensational for a woman to write for an influential national newspaper such as Ta Kung Pao.

She had published her thoughts on women's rights and the general editor of the newspaper introduced her to Yan Fu who was an advocate for Western ideas.

At first this school found it difficult to find girls who qualified for secondary education and students were brought in from Shanghai to make up the numbers.

[17] There is a book about vegetarianism and animal rights that has an unusual theme and presentation called Light of Europe and America (Oumei zhi guang).