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 inBeijing.

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 Dong ethnic group. The Dong ethnicity mainly lives on the borders of Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi provinces in China. The population of the Dong ethnicity was about 2 million in 2000.