Maybe we can divide Chinese into several parts, and native Beijinger both Han and Manchurian is not much different according to this feature at least in my eyes. We must accept that people would become more and more similar in certain solid area.

I think your mum looks South East Asian, considering many people are dying their hairs these days having brown or reddish hair would not really raised eye brows. There are Asians with brown eyes although many more have black eyes. I have brown eyes. Your dad however looks Chinese.

My grandmother has reddish dark brown hair but she definitely looks Chinese. My natural hair color is not very black, it’s kind of very dark brown and underneath the sun it kind of has reddish tones, but I definitely look very East Asian.

Yes, Your dad looks like Tungus, he has very North Asian/ Polar look

You have it the wrong way around. It's her mother that looks Chinese, her father doesn't.

Southern Chinese.


Northern Chinese.

ofcuz they have brown eyes,i have never seen any asians with real black eyes,they either have light brown or dark brown eyes.




i still have red hair pop out every once a while

Red hair? Well.....for me...it's blonde.

nope,whats so un-chinese about her father?




you should have said: southern chinese from fujian province








pic is too small to view it,and which part of north china?province?




and are you actually really relying on a pic found on the internet

Ive met quite a few southern Chinese who have black hair but its sorta brownish when its under the sun. Do you know why its like this? Maybe it could explain why her mum has brown hair.

Maybe her mom has low melanin......

Well........my older sister was born with blonde hair but it gradually darks as she grew older. o.o

dude,most infants are like that,nothing special about it.

The father looked Chinese to my eyes. Just realised that the eyes just are so small after Conan's post.
Well, I don't know what's the difference if he close his eyes and compare to other Chinese closing their eyes as well.

Under strong sunlight, I see many people's "black" eyes to be somehow brownish. So are the hairs.

And actually I've heard that some broken black hair may change color to reddish.

Sometimes people(like me) in a photo look like small narrow eyes due to the sunshine, but in reality these people can have broad eyes. However I insist that this feature is not a necessary case in point. Lao She(老舍) , a Manchurian writter, may tell it.

No I have seen people with black eyes, my eyes and hair are lighter than the other Chinese with black hair, black eyes. I was observing that in the hair salon in Malaysia when I went for my hair straightening treatment. Mine is one shade lighter than some, and there are ones similar to mine. Anyway I look East Asian, not all people think I look Chinese but all think I look East Asian.

My grandmother is in her 80s because of her reddish black hair instead of turning white hair or grey her hair turned brown!!!

My father's friends in their 50s many have grey hair or even white hair, my dad's hair is still black!

nope,pure black eyes doesnt exsisted,there are 3 genotypic eye colors(brown,green and blue). you think they are black,when actually they are just dark brown.


Eye color or eye colour is a polygenic trait and is determined by the amount and type of pigments, primarily melanin, present in the eye's iris[1][2]. Although there seem to be three genotypic eye colors (brown, green, and blue), humans and other animals have many phenotypic variations in eye color[3].


the eyes you've observered were either brown or light brown.


Seddon et. al developed a graded one based on the predominant iris color (brown, light brown, green, gray, and blue) and the amount of brown or yellow pigment present.[16]






and Most of the original inhabitants of Africa, Asia, and the Americas have brown eyes.





you can read moer here


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color

Hmmm, your mother seems to have a Higher Nose bridge than most East Asians I've seen. Both my parents hail from Fujian province. My mother has a fairly low nose bridge, as do I.
Your mother also seems to have a strong looking Chin, which is a good thing IMO.

Hey, you seem to share your father's wide cheekbones. LIke previous posters have said, shouldn't be so hard on yourself. I definitely wouldn't mind having a girlfriend look like you:

OMG! Holy Sh!t !! Thats something I've never seen or heard before. But yeah, I guess it makes sense when you think if it in terms of Recessive/Dominant Gene theory, and the fact that migrations probably cause gene mixture.

Whoa!!
If you didn't tell me, I'd have thought he was some Japanese guy, with an obsession with Blonde hair.

AFAIK in my hometown, toddler blondness dissapears when children grow up. If they are still blonde haired, then those children always got teased by their peers.

Eventually everyone will have gray hair.

actually she does have a trace of "eurasian" features, although this is not really that unusual in chinese population...even among southern chinese there has been some admixture from the west over the centuries, such as arab and persian traders in southern port cities, but this influence is much greater in northern china, especially northwestern china (not surprising considering all the migrations and invasions that have taken place there over thousands of years)...i guess she may have some relationship to turkic peoples, such as uighurs in xinjiang (this is also true for my mother's family)...

She looks like every other southern Chinese to me. Quite similar to Chen Changlin, a well known musician.


BTW, western genetic contribution to the Chinese population is basically non-existent, so people should stop claiming European admixture in them.

My girlfriends hair is brown when placed under the light... but that doesn't mean anything
no really... Place almost any Asian hair under the sun... it'll turn brown...

Accept me of course... Cause I'm a Male Miao **sarcasm*

One marked difference is OwlFolk's mother has a higher nose bridge. Her nose have a continuous slope from the forehead to the tip of her nose. It also appears that each of her eyes are longer, although it is difficult to tell from this picture alone.

Edit: Yes, I'm somewhat obsessed about the nose.

Thanks for the info. Besides genes, is there a corrolation between environment and eye colour ? For instance in china are the southern Chinese eye colour lighter than the northerners ?

I would tend to think more pigment in the eyes and skin (darker skin) is better suited in environments closer towards the equator.

However, I don't think we should be putting too much emphasis on the correlation between environment and physical traits anymore. With the kinds of transportation that is available, the modern conveniences that makes life easier, virtually anybody can end up anywhere and survive. You can have an albino man live in the tropics and still survive due to conveniences that are available.

DearCoolz, I've been with you on this one. Owls mother does have facial features that diverge from the typical "Mongolian Look".

I actually see Chinese everyday with higher noses than this woman. Just look at these average Beijingers.

http://ziboy.com/ziliao/DSCN0826.jpg

http://ziboy.com/ziliao/DSCN5328.jpg

Thanks, I got light brown eyes and my folks where originally from Guangdong. Guess somewhere along the way they may have migrated from the north.

Hmm, kinda far away to tell, but I did see some folks with higher noses. So I guess it's the eyes that marks someone as a native Chinese. And Yes, I'm talking about the Epicanthal fold. Some chinese have that fold receed up higher over the eyes, while others have it hang down more. I would say if the fold stays up higher, it gives a person a bright eyed look.

Well according the Chinese histories, their are tribes people that call the Wusun that lived in nothern west of china that have red to blonde, anh green to grey eyes. Their also another groups of tribes that have that same characteristic, that lived in the north eastern of mongolia, near the Sibeiria border. Both of these tribes belong to the Dingling group, these tribes had been in living China anh other parts along the outer northern border of China.They been livingng in these area, as long as the Mongol anh the Han did...

I think that you have a very good looking family.

People from Zhongguo (China) can have various appearances. Over a 5,000 thousand year history, we Hua people absorbed many diffiernt groups of people. I have seen Hua people with high nose bridge, deep set eyes, red/brown coloured hair. That is just the way we are.

Apart from you and your family, the most beautiful Hua women probably come from Hangzhou.