Born into a musical family, he studied pipa and other musical instruments with his father, Professor Lin Shicheng. 1975 was employed by Shanghai Orchestra to play pipa in the large-scale symphonies "Hulao Mountain to Go", "Music for Chairman Mao's Poems" and "Long March Songs". 1982 Lin Jiaqing's pipa solo concert was jointly sponsored by China Musicians' Association and china national radio Ministry of Literature and Art. 1979 was admitted to Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he studied under the educator, pipa master Professor Wei Zhongle and Professor Sun Yude. 1983 graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. 199 1 went to Tibet with the Art Troupe of the Central Delegation to participate in the cultural performance of the 40th anniversary of Tibet's peaceful liberation, and was awarded the Excellent Actor Award of Mount Everest by the Ministry of Culture, and the first-class merit by the Ministry of Culture. 1986 worked as a pipa soloist, and played a court musician in the film The Last Emperor, winning an Oscar. He has performed and given lectures in Singapore, Japanese, Taiwan Province and Hongkong. 1996 won the grand prize of the 2nd Hong Kong Shenzhou Art Festival.