Born in Chengdu, Long Rui graduated from Beijing School of Art and Craft at age 20. In 1979 he graduated from the Department of Chinese Landscape Painting of the Central Academy of Fine Arts where he learned from Li Keran (1907-1989). He was awarded the Merit Prize in the "6th National Fine Arts Exhibition" in1981, and the Outstanding Entry Prize at the Japanese "Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition" in 1987. One year later, Long joined the "Modern Ink Painting Exhibitio