Li Chi-wu was born in Taoyuan's Fuhsing Township in 1962. His father Li Yung-pin is a Hunan native who came to Taiwan with the army in 1949. While stationed in Fuhsing Township, he fell in love with and married Li Chi-wu's mother, a beautiful Atayal woman named Sung Chin-chu.
李繼吾一九六二年出生於桃園縣復興鄉，父親李永斌是河南人，一九四九年隨軍隊來台，在復興鄉服役時與美麗的泰雅族姑娘宋金菊相戀成婚，生下李繼吾。