Her father, Li Gefei, was an academic professor, a famous essayist, and a member of a poetry and literary circle led by Su Shi.

Her poems showed her girlish innocence, sharp mind, and love of nature, such as "Happy Memories: Dreamland".

They had numerous similarities and both loved poetry, literature, sculpture in bronze and stone, painting, and calligraphy.

Her early poetry portrays her carefree days as a woman of high society, and is marked by its elegance.

Li described her married life and the turmoil of her flight in an afterword to her husband's posthumously published work, Catalogue of Inscriptions on Metal and Stone [zh].

Li subsequently settled in Hangzhou, where the Song government made its new capital after the war against the Jurchens.

The book was mainly about the calligraphy on bronze and stones; it also mentions the documents Li and Zhao collected and viewed.

According to some contemporary accounts, she was briefly married to a man named Zhang Ruzhou [zh] who treated her badly, and she divorced him within months.

A few poems in the shi form also survived, as did the afterword to Catalogue of Inscriptions on Metal and Stone and a study of ci poetry.

Li's life was full of twists and turns and her poems can be split into two main parts - the dividing line being when she moved to the south.

Returning late by boat When we'd enjoyed our fill, We got lost and strayed To where the clustered lotuses Were at their thickest.

At the end of the corridor is a quadrillion built in 1993; on the door, there is a well-known poet Xiao Lao writing tablet "Li Qingzhao Memorial Hall".

In the early Qing dynasty, the poet Tian Wen wrote a poem titled "Visiting Li Yian Old House at Liuxu Spring."

Ba Yong Lou was built by Shen Yue, governor of Dongyang, in the first year of Qilongchang in the Southern dynasty.

[citation needed] River of Stars, a novel by Guy Gavriel Kay set in a fictionalized Song China, features a protagonist inspired by Li Qingzhao, as acknowledged by the author in the book.

[16] In the 2022 video game Terra Invicta, the leader of the Academy faction is named in honor of Li Qingzhao.