Abstract: Objective To investigate the somatotype characteristic of urban and rural Han in Sichuan Ziyang. Methods Using the methods described in Martin’s EM>Anthropometric Methods/EM> andEM> Anthropomorphic handbook/EM>, 86 physique targets of 342 adult males (137 urban males and 205 rural males) and 357 adult females (151 urban females and 206 rural females) in Sichuan province Ziyang area Jianyang were investigated, Thirty\|five physique indices were calculated and an index minute situation was counted. The data were compared with our country tribal grouping tribal group material. The physique characteristics of the Han in Sichuan were preliminarily analyzed. Results The Han in Sichuan(male and female)had the high percent of eyefold of the upper eyelid, the triangular lobe types, the black hair color, the brown eye color, the yellow skin color, the narrow opening height of eyeslits, the medium nasal root height and height of alae nasi, the straight nasal profile, the low rate of zygomatic projection, the snubby nasal base, the diagonal maximal diameter of nostrils and the medium upper lip skin height, which had the low percent of mongoloid fold and the thick thickness of lips. The ectocanthion was advanced to endocanthion.The Nasal breadth was advanced to interocular breadth. According to the average index of head and face, the males and females of Han in Sichuan were brachycephaly, hypsicephalic, metriocephalic, hyperleptoprosopy, leptorrhiny, long trunk, subbrachyskelic, broad shoulder breadth and broad distance between iliac crests. The males were medium chest circumference,and females were broad chest circumference. The males had the mesosoma in urban of Han. The males and females in the rural and the females in the urban had the submesosoma of Han. Conclusion The index and target of head and face of Han in Sichuan receive the joint influences of the ethnic groups of the South Asian type and the North Asian type. The target of body is close to the ethnic groups of the North Asian type, the index of body is between the ethnic groups of the North Asian type and the ethnic groups of the Sou

Key words: ichuan, Somatoscopy, Anthropometry, Han