Wei-wei was born in 1932 in China's Anhui Province into a small family which included only her parents and younger sister, the noted literary critic Yueh Heng-chun.
1932 年出生在安徽的薇薇夫人，家裡人口簡單，只有爸媽及妹妹、亦即著名的文學評論家樂蘅軍。