Portrait of Single Chinese Family of 500 Members

• 02.08.2017, 17:27
•  Asia,  World,  No-politics

ZHANG LIANGZONG

More than 500 members of a single Chinese family have convened for a gigantic group portrait that captures the dramatic transformations their country has undergone since its economic boom began almost four decades ago, Guardian reports.

Members of the Ren family came together in a village near the eastern city of Shengzhou, about 150 miles (240km) south of Shanghai, at the start of February to celebrate China’s lunar new year.

The local researchers had managed to identify at least 2,000 living members of the extended Ren family, whose history can be traced back more than eight and a half centuries.