Taizhou, Jiangsu
You was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu on September 16, 1933, and primarily studied in Shanghai and Nanjing. When he was a child, a fortune teller said that he could not live to be 13 years old unless he became a monk. So when he was 6 years old, his parents sent him to Fazang Temple () in Shanghai, where he received ordination as a monk under Master Xingci (). And he got the dharma name "Chengpei" ().