A native of Kwangtung province, Lee was born in 1911 in a traditional artistic family at the time Dr. Sun Yat-sen's followers were engaged in the Wuchang uprising.
他是一位不願用太多時間，花在整修邊幅的性情中人。李仲生是廣東韶關人，一九一一年出生在一個很有藝術傳統的家庭裡。