Hsin Chi-ming was born in Taiwan's Tainan in 1954. Her father came from the province of Shan-tung and her mother from Manchuria. Her parents came to Taiwan in 1949 and settled in Tainan's Hsinying.
辛啟明，民國四十三年出生於台南，父親是山東人，母親東北人，父母在民國卅八年來台，定居台南新營。