Hey btw can you unquote or remove the links to the pic please?

Actually the ones who people think can look Japanese are my other cousins that I posted above.

Also I think the Siamese influence is much lesser than what I used to think given how most of my maternal side (my dad's side is 100% Chinese) still look very Southern Chinese despite being in Siam and assimilated longer than my paternal side. 

Thanks for sharing though but as I mentioned earlier I'm a young man (not that young actually turning 31 this year) with an old soul and I'm not that into K-Pop, I'm much more into ethnic minority songs and folk songs, particularly those from Southern China. I've also been self-learning Zhuang and Dai languages.

I'd recommend the Dai (or Tai Lue) Chinese singer Ai Han Jian, I love listening to a lot of his songs. He's a very talented singer, composer, and songwriter, however due to linguistic and cultural barriers not many people outside of China (or even inside China but from different provinces) know about him and his works. 

Here's one of his songs about Chiang Mai and the ancient Lanna kingdom from about 20 years ago, I really love the rhythm of this song, I feel purified after listening to it and I hope you'd feel the same as well. Recently I've been listening to this song every night before going to sleep.

Without further ado, please enjoy the song



Here's my favorite Zhuang song on Youtube, not sure who's the singer or the composer but it just feels so soothing.




TBH I don't really like the mass industrialized songs (like K-Pop or J-Pop for instance), before those kinds of genres "invaded" China, we actually had a lot of talented native and ethnic composers and singers, but after the dominance of K and J Pops in China, they have mostly faded away from the picture, which is a sad thing. That's why I only like listening to old Chinese songs from around 2 decades ago, not really the new songs.

I was indeed referring to someone else, and I found her channel. The name of her channel is Mandarin Corner, here's the link: www.youtube.com/@mandarincorner2

The owner of the channel is also from Jiangxi, and I can see similarities between her and shirvanshah's sister. I think such robust Mittelsinid features are most typically found on some Fujian, Jiangxi, and Hunan individuals, and not really found on Cantonese. If a cosmopolitan Cantonese happens to have such features, then chances are high that he or she has ancestries from those regions.

The most typical Cantonese appearance, imho, are best represented by these 3 individuals:

Derek Kok, Hong Kong actor with origin from Guangzhou, born 1964



Feng Junyan, former Chinese soccer player from Guangzhou, born 1984



Peng Weiguo, former Chinese soccer player from Guangzhou, born 1971



I deliberately chose men over women because I think there's a lower chance for men getting plastic surgery or putting on heavy make-up.

And all three are from Guangzhou, which is a cosmopolitan city today. But when they were born Guangzhou was far less cosmopolitan than it is now.

It's not really about eye size, for instance Peng Weiguo doesn't have large eyes, but his eyes still give me a different impression from shirvanshah's relatives or from a similarly small-eyed Northern Chinese individual. I think it's more due to the fact that their eyebrows are set very close to their eyes, thus giving people a deep-set impression more akin to West Eurasians or Africans.

And also I'm not sure why some people here consider Cantonese to be rather wide-faced with high cheekbones, those features are definitely not common among Cantonese. I think Cantonese typically have a rather slender and small face (by Chinese standards), with some slight cheek protrusions in the midface area. I remember uisashi once described such feature as "lower cheekbones" or "lower-set cheekbones".

Overall I think Cantonese are a quite good-looking people that are different from not only Northern Chinese but also from other Southern Chinese groups like Hokkien, Jiangxi, Hunan, etc. Their high percentages of Tai-Kradai genome are what set them apart from the rest and make them looking more SE Asian.

It's unfortunate that such typical Canto appearances are harder and harder to come by in the Pearl Delta metropolitan region these days due to admixtures with other Sinitic groups.

Also can you unquote or remove the links please?

Done, you should probably edit your own posts too.

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Mandarin Corner looks "stereotypically Chinese" in ways that shirvanshah's sister does not. She has this "pan-southern China" pheno of relatively wide-set and not-small eyes that are also relatively "long" and tapered. Could be an "Ancient Sinitic" morph that combined with the She-like ancestry present among Han from the general Jiangxi/Fujian/eastern Guangdong region to produce that regional pheno. shirvanshah's sister has too much of a SEA vibe in her lower face despite also having very light skin and "closed-set" eyes.




The outdoors education woman being interviewed in this video has a more pan-Southern China look face that also more closely resembles the "Sudsinid" morph in how short, wide, and compact the face is. If I had to guess I'd say she's from Guangdong or Fujian but could probably pass in most the other rice-growing provinces too.

shirvanshah

"Northern" or "Southern" are vague terms in the context of Asia, as there is no strict criteria dictating which features belong to which direction. Some Mongolians look extremely Hunanese for example. I think you and your siblings just look like what you would typically expect given your admixtures.

I've talked about Mittlesinid above, now I will cover the Nordsinid and the Sudsinid morphs.

1. humanphenotypes.net/Chukiangid.html

The Sudsinid morph to be honest, does look distinct Cantonese, albeit not the most "conventionally attractive" drawn version. Cantonese people range in looks and the Chukiangid is definitely one portion of what some of them look like, but I do agree that the morph isn't very appealing (Irl Cantonese people with similar features typically have better harmony than the morph).

2. humanphenotypes.net/Huanghoid.html

Likewise, the Huanghoid morph does look "northern Chinese", but that specific phenotype is regionally biased towards Shandong and Dongbei rather than say Hebei or Shanxi. Also, Humanphenotypes pretty much ignore Tibetoburman groups in China, which are a huge influence on what the local Han look like.