On November 27, 2000 (November 2, 2000 in the lunar calendar), contemporary China ethnographer Lin Yaohua passed away. Lin Yaohua, male, is a professor at the Department of Ethnology, Central University for Nationalities. Born in March 1910, in Gutian County, Fujian Province. Tenured professor and doctoral supervisor at Central University for Nationalities, Beijing. Our country is a famous ethnographer, anthropologist and sociologist, and a member of the Communist Party of China. 1928-1935 He studied in the Department of Sociology at Yanjing University in Beijing in 1932 and received a bachelor's degree in 1932 and a master's degree in 1935. In 1937, he entered Harvard University in the United States to study anthropology and received a doctorate in philosophy in 1940. In 1941, he returned to China to teach. He served successively as chairman of the Department of Sociology at Yanjing University, chairman of the History Department of the Central University for Nationalities, chairman of the Department of Ethnology, director of the Institute of Ethnology, and concurrently served as a member of the Legal Review Committee of the State Council. Vice President of China Ethnology Society, Vice President of China Sociological Society, Honorary President of Yanjing University Alumni Association, Senior Fellow of the National Museum of Ethnology of Japan, and International Honorary Advisor of the American Institute of Biographies. For more than 60 years, he has devoted himself to teaching, meticulous and tirelessly, and has trained a large number of teaching and scientific researchers who have made important contributions to the development of ethnology in China. For more than half a century. He went through hardships and even risked his life to conduct on-the-spot investigations in remote ethnic areas, and traveled all over the motherland. On this basis, he wrote a large number of investigation and research papers and wrote a lot of books. His main works: "Golden Wings"(in seven editions in Chinese and English in 1941, LondonRoutledge Kegan Panl Taiwan Laurel Book Company, Sanlian Bookstore):"Liangshan Yi Family"(1947, Commercial Press);"History of Primitive Society"(editor-in-chief, 1984, Zhonghua Book Company, won three awards from Beijing City and the whole country):"General Theory of Ethnology"(editor-in-chief. In 1990, he won three awards from Beijing City and the country) and "Great Changes in the Yi Family in Liangshan"(1995, Commercial Press, won the 10th Book Award of China). He has participated in many international academic conferences and lectures abroad. His biography has been included in more than a dozen biographies of international celebrities such as "Who's Who of the World in America". A professor who has written a lot has left many works that have far-reaching significance to future generations.