The mechanism of multinucleon transfer reac-tions has been investigated within the dinuclear system model, in which the sequential nucleon transfer is descri-bed by solving a set of microscopically derived master equations. The transfer dynamics in the reaction of 136Xe + 208Pb near Coulomb barrier energies is thoroughly ana-lyzed. It is found that the total kinetic energies of primary fragments are dissipated from the relative motion energy of two touching nuclei and exhibit a symmetric distribution along the fragment mass. The angular distribution of the projectile-like fragments moves forward with increasing beam energy. However, the target-like fragments exhibit an opposite trend. The shell effect is pronounced due to the fragment yields in multinucleon transfer reactions.