Basically everyone in Thailand gets a tattoo, why are they so keen on tattoos?

Because in Thailand tattoos are not only a kind of culture and art, but also a kind of religious meaning, the Thai people believe that tattoo patterns will give them courage and perseverance, and different patterns have different magic, and even some tattoos can change the fate of the pattern. The earliest tattoos are soldiers, they believe that tattoos will give them more courage and perseverance, and can make them come back safely from the battlefield. Later on, they became so popular that people started to get tattoos, and they had more than one design on their bodies because they believed that the more tattoos they got, the stronger their magical powers would be. Tattoos in Thailand also have many rules, not just any design can be tattooed.

Thailand is a religious country, their culture of God and Buddha in addition to Buddha , statues of God, the Thai people feel that the tattoo is also a brave performance and tattoos is not a casual thing, to be in the end of March each year tattoo the best, and the pattern has a lot to say!

The first tattoo designs are only Buddha and Buddhist scriptures, and then added a variety of different tattoo designs, the meaning of the symbols are not the same, such as tattooing a tiger is a symbol of the meaning of courage, tattooing an elephant to symbolize the strength, tattooed with monkeys to symbolize the city's nimble hands.

Thai people especially like to put the religious patterns tattooed on the body, they feel that these religious patterns can bring their own peace and happiness, want to be tattooed must be subjected to tattoo mage check, they are strong magic, through the unique criteria to observe the tattooed person's good and bad to decide whether to be able to tattoo, the next these through the examination of the person mage will be based on the trend of their destiny to determine what should be tattooed, then only while chanting the opening of the scripture, the tattoo will be made on the way. Only then will the chanting of the light, while tattooing. This way the tattoo will bring good luck and health to the tattooed person.

Of course, in modern times many taboos have been opened up, and many young people's tattoos are mainly to show their personalities, to show their own sex appeal and charm, and in their opinion, tattoos are a manifestation of their unique personalities and selves. Not like the traditional Thai Buddhist tattoos, with the blessing of peace and security of the meaning of life. ?