【Objective】Study on the variations of craniofacial characteristic with the increase of the age. 【Methods】 The craniofacial characteristics on 748 adults (368 males

380 females) of Han people reside in Sichuan were investigated. Thirty-eight items of the craniofacial physical indices and other 13 items of craniofacial physical data were calculated. These craniofacial characteristics change have been analyzed with the growth of the age. 【Results】 (1) The indices of head breadth

interocular breadth

external biocular breadth

morphological facial height

lip height

thickness of lips and horizontal head circumference have negatively correlation with the increase of the age. (2) The indices of nasal breadth

mouth breadth

upper lip skin height

physiognonic ear length

physiognmic ear breadth and facia skinfold have positive correlation with the increas of the age. (3) With the growth of the age

some of the characteristics have significant change. The occurrence rate of Mongoloid fold and external biocular height declines. Zygomatic process protrude more than before. What’s more

the occurrence rate of the brown color of eye has increased

but that of black brown ones has decreased; the rate of thin lips out of the Thickness of lips has increased too

but the rate of middle-thick lips types has decreased; and the wide types of alae nasi breadth has increased

but the middling ones has decreased. (4) With the growth of the age

the cephalic index such as length-breadth index

length-height index and stomatic index have declined. Moreover

transverse cephalo-facial index and Height-breadth index ascended. 【Conclusion】With the growth of the age

the measured value and index of craniofacial characteristic along with the typing of the observed value change with regularity.