Lau entered the canton municipal art institute when he was eighteen and graduated four years later during the war . after the war , he worked as an art officer in the documentation library of guangdong , before moving to hong kong in 1948 劉氏為廣東番禺人,字平之,自祖輩開始已與文藝結下不解之緣,伯父劉慶崧是著名學者及篆刻家,而伯兄劉玉林則師從鄧爾疋。
Lau entered the canton municipal art institute when he was eighteen and graduated four years later during the war . after the war , he worked as an art officer in the documentation library of guangdong , before moving to hong kong in 1948 劉氏十八歲入讀廣州市立美術專科學校,廿二歲畢業時正值抗日戰爭,遂赴南洋各地輔佐藝術籌賑工作,戰后回國任廣東省文獻館藝術干事等職。