To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China, a photo show entitled “The Joy Happy Family - the journey that 56 Chinese ethnic groups have gone through over past years”was held in Beijing.

The photo show was jointly organized by China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC) and China Photographers Association and supported by China Photo Press, Nationality Pictorial, China Pictorial, and Wangfujing Area Construction and Management Office.

The following photos, selected from the exhibition, are portraits of people of Lisu ethnic group.

The Lisu ethnic group numbers 574,600 people, and most of them live in concentrated communities in Bijiang, Fugong, Gongshan and Lushui counties of the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Yunnan Province. The rest are scattered in Lijiang, Baoshan, Diqing, Dehong, Dali, Chuxiong prefectures or counties in Yunnan Province as well as in Xichang and Yanbian counties in Sichuan Province, living in small communities with the Han, Bai, Yi and Naxi peoples.

The Lisu language belongs to the Chinese-Tibetan language family. In 1957, a new alphabetic script was created for the Lisu people.