About Li's life experience, the folklore is concrete and vivid. It is said that he is a hooligan in Hejianfu area. He went to prison for selling nitrosulfonic acid privately, and after he got out of prison, he switched to repairing leather shoes. He is called "Pinitroli". Later, when he came to Beijing, he was introduced by Shen, who was also a eunuch, and mastered a set of techniques for combing new hairstyles. He entered the palace as a comb-hair eunuch of Empress Dowager Cixi, and was therefore favored by Empress Dowager Cixi.
However, the folklore is far from the actual situation of Li juvenile entering the palace recorded in the epitaph and the archives of the Qing palace, which is obviously fabricated. However, this statement was widely circulated. Even when the North Korean minister impeached Li, Li was called "Little Grate Li" in his memorial ("Grate Li" used to be a tool for women to comb their hair).
Li was named Li Jinxi after he entered the palace, and was named by Cixi in 14. He worked as a policeman in the music department of Donglu and Ren Jing Palace, and was transferred to Cixi Changchun Palace, where he lived for three years 16 years old.
At this time, the eunuch An Dehai was favored by Cixi and turned purple. Although he entered the palace at the same time, his status was far from the same. Later, Andrew Hein was arrogant and finally beheaded by Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong Province, on charges of "violating the ancestral system and leaving the capital without permission".