Liu was born in
Beijing in August 1966, with her
ancestral home in
Chengdu,
Sichuan. She graduated from the
Communication University of China in 1990, where she majored in broadcast. In her early career, she was best known for her voice role as
Hua Xiren in the 1987 television classic
Dream of the Red Chamber, Beibei in the Fuwa tv series, as well as the Chinese voice dub of
Minnie Mouse,
Mighty Atom and
Doraemon. She joined
China Central Television (CCTV) in 1991 and has co-hosted the
variety show Zhengda Variety () and the
children's television show Big Pinwheel (), the latter of which she was better known for. She initially went by the stage name "Little Antlers" () when hosting
Big Pinwheel and its sub-program
Smart House () with senior co-host
Dong Hao and later
He Jiong, before eventually switched to "Golden Scarab" () after the CCTV program re-structuring in 1997. ==Works==