Liu Yu was born in Mianning, Yunnan (now Lincang). Beijing Normal University is a dropout. 1934 Join the Left Alliance. 1936 * * Joined China. From 65438 to 0937, he entered the Northern Shaanxi Public School. He used to be the deputy section chief of the editorial department of the Ministry of Education of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government and the deputy director of the editorial office of the Northwest Ministry of Education. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as the director of the primary school Chinese editing room of People's Education Publishing House, the secretary of the Party Committee of Kunming College, the vice chairman of Yunnan Branch of Chinese Writers Association, and the dean of Yunnan Education College. Children's books such as Chinese and Common Sense in Primary Schools, New Ballads, Stories of Frontier Children, and Yan 'an Short Songs and Children's Songs of Birds, Animals and Plants 100 were written.