Abstract: A somatological survey on 1011 Chinese Man Nationality living in Jilin province was carried out. The results show: The head belongs to hyperbrachycephaly or brachycephaly; in most cases the face is of the mesoprosopy or euruprosopy in both sexes; and the nose belongs to mesorrhine type or leptorrhine. The direction of the eye aperture is mainly sloping upward and lateralward in both sexes. There is Mongoloid fold in varying degrees in the youths of Man Nayionality. The profile view of the nasal bridge is mainly of the straight type. There are no significant differences in the main nonmetrical characters of head of youths of Man Nationality but metric traits in youths are lower than those of adults.

Key words: Somatoscopy; Anthropornetry; Youths; Man Nationality