Manchu ethnic minority group has a population of more than 10,000,000, most of whom live in the northeast three provinces, particularly Liaoning has the largest population of the Manchu people. A small proportion of the Manchu people live in a homogenious community in some large and middle cities. Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, because of the intermarriage between the Han nationality and the Man Ethnic Minority, and people of the two nationalities live in a mixed community, the difference between the Han nationality and the Man nationality has been gradually reduced. The Manchu people believe in Shamanism, later they also believe in the Buddhism.

The broad northeast region is the birthplace of the Manchu ethnic minority group, which plays an important role in the history of the Chinese nation with its long history and spirits of industriousness and dauntlessness. The Manchu people and their ancestors---the Nvzhen tribe have invaded the central plains twice and established the Jin Dynasty and a completely unified Qing Dynasty. The Jin Dynasty has confronted the South Song Dynasty for many years, while the Qing Dynasty had ruled China for 267 years from the founding of the state by Qingtaizu Nuerhachi and Qingtaizong Huangtaiji, and has experienced the one hundred years prosperity during the reign of the emperors Kangxi and Qianlong, the downfall during the reign of the emperors Tongzhi and Guangxu, and the holding of the court behind the screen by the Cixi Queen Mother. In 1911, the Qing Dynasty ended its rule over the Chinese nation.

The Manchu ethnic minority group has its own language and characters, and it belongs to the Altai language family. Originally, Manchu people borrowed characters from Mogolia, in 1599, two courtiers Eerdeni and Zhaerguqiergai created the Man characters without punctuations under the assignment of the emperor Nuerhachi. In 1632, emperor Huangtaiji ordered Dahai to improve the Manchu characters, this new type of Man characters with puctuations has been used up to the present. After the 1640s, most of the Manchu people use Chinese, and now only a small number of old people in Heilongjiang province can speak the Manchu language.

Originally, the family names of the Manchu people is the Manchu language, such as the family names of Aixinjueluo, Nala, ect., some family names have the tribe names in front, such as the Yehe Nala, the Hada Nala, so on and so forth. After the Manchu people invaded and took the control of the Central Plains, they began to use the family names of the Han nationality, for example, they changed Aixinjueluoshi to the surname Jin, Fuchashi to Fu, and the Nala shi to Na.