Every nation has its own typical appearance characteristics, which is the result of different genes. Although history of manchu has merged with other ethnic groups many times in the world, the genes will not disappear completely because of the integration.
Judging from various sources
The earliest Manchu (Nuzhen) people should be tall, with strong bones and fair skin. The facial features should be a slightly longer face, flat eyebrows, slender straight eyes, single eyelids, brown-black pupils, slightly higher nose bridge, a bulge in the middle, a small mouth, thin lips and no thick hair and beard.
Later, due to the participation of Mongolian, Han and even a small number of whites, there were also characteristics such as big eyes, double eyelids, big mouth, fat round face, flat nose, black and yellow skin, pink and white skin, thick hair and curly hair. The most typical families are Aisingiorro and Yehenala. As emperors and nobles of the Manchu dynasty, they paid more attention to pure blood and retained more national characteristics.
Even if you are of Manchu descent, you don't necessarily look like the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty in the portrait. However, if your father or mother's ancestral home is in the northeast, and their surnames are strange and look a bit like Emperor Kangxi or Empress Dowager Cixi, then you can be sure that they are descendants of Manchu.
Manchu in inland provinces are mainly descendants of Manchu in Qi Jing and the Eight Banners around the country, and they are concentrated in the garrison and its surrounding cities. In the Gyeonggi area, among the descendants of nobles and senior officials in the Qing Dynasty, few people used their ancestral property to open some shops, and most of them made a living by selling real estate, jewelry, calligraphy and painting. 193 1 in September, the news of "iron hat king pulling rickshaws" appeared in Peiping newspapers and periodicals. In the past, members of the royal family and relatives also played drums and sold garbage in the streets for a living.
The life of the lower Manchu people is even more miserable. Most of them work as workers, odd jobs, rickshaws, craftsmen, small traders and public officials, and live a precarious life under the rule of warlords and the Kuomintang. After that, when ethnic discrimination was serious, Manchu people were forced to change to Han nationality, otherwise they could not find a place to live, or lost their existing jobs and positions.
Forced to hide national elements and migrate everywhere. Guangzhou Manchu people, as small traders and craftsmen, account for more than 60% of the working population. In Chengdu, Jingzhou and other places, odd jobs and rickshaw pulling have also become the main occupations of Manchu people.