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Yeren
Description: Yeren means "wildman" in chinese. The Yeren is said to be bipedal, about 6 1/2
feet tall with a heavy coat of red or brown hair. The hair is relatively long, longer than Bigfoot's. The footprints are usually between 12-18 inches in length. The arms are slightly elongated. The shoulders are relatively wide, but not extremely so. The face is large. The nose is rather flat. Just think of bigfoot, but on average about 1 foot shorter, with longer hair.
Location: China
What Are They: Many Chinese researchers and myself think the Yeren is a descendant of the fossil ape, Gigantopithecus, which lived in Asia between 7 million and
300,000 years ago in the fossil record. In my opinion the Yeren and Bigfoot are related.
Report: In early June, 1977, I went to Dadi Gully to cut logs. Somewhere between 11 and 12 in the morning I ran into a 'hairy man' in the woods on the slope of the gully. It came closer and closer. I got scared and kept retreating until my back was against a stone cliff and I couldn't go any further. The hairy man came up to seven or eight feet, and then to about five feet from me. I raised my axe, ready to fight for my life. We stood like that, neither of us moving, for more than an hour. Then I groped for a stone and threw it at him. It hit him in the chest. He uttered several howls and rubbed the spot with his left hand. Then he turned left and leaned against a tree, then walked away slowly towards the bottom of the gully. He kept making a mumbling sound. He was about seven feet tall [a Chinese foot is 73 cm — not 30·5 cm as in our system] with shoulders wider than a man's, a sloping forehead, deep-set eyes, and bulbous nose with slightly upturned nostrils. He had sunken cheeks, ears like a man's but bigger, and round eyes also bigger than a man's. His jaw jutted out and he had protruding lips. His front teeth were as broad as a horse's. His eyes were black. His hair was dark brown and more than a foot long, and hung loosely over his shoulders. His whole face, except for the nose and ears, was covered with short hairs. His arms hung down to below his knees. He had big hands about half a foot long and with thumbs only slightly separated from the fingers. He didn't have any tail, and the hair on his body was short. He had thick thighs, shorter than the lower part of his leg. He walked upright with his legs apart. His feet were each about a foot long and half that broad — broader in front and narrow behind, with splayed toes. He was a male. That much I saw clearly.
Pang Gensheng's encounter from Still Living? Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal enigma by Myra Shackley.