Tattoos originated in which country?

Tattoo's predecessor is tattoo, is in the tattoo machine has not yet appeared, with a needle dipped in ink on the body of a needle and a needle to the pattern, the pattern of more social customs heavier soldiers and generals, dragons and tigers as the main, a lot of people are inside the prison to do, because of tattooing is only black, is not a specialized tattoo pigment, the color of the color of the time will be bluish blue and green, so it's also known as the tattoo. Since the pre-Qin era tattooing is in the prisoner's face tattoo as a warning. In ancient texts, there have been stories of tattooing, skeletonizing, zhaqing, pointing, carving and so on, such as mother-in-law tattoo. In Water Margin, there are at least three important characters with tattoos: Lu Zhishen, the flower monk, Shi Jin, the dragon with nine stripes, and Yan Qing, the prodigal son. Ancient Egypt even used tattoos to draw a distinction between social status, and women in the Victorian era of England popularized the red lip tattoo, similar to the modern tattoo lip, tattoo eyebrow and other permanent makeup beauty. So tattoos began to slowly detach from the part of the penalty so that people have a negative impression of tattoos, evolved into a kind of personal adornment, in many cultures, tattoos are a kind of tradition, but also a symbol of social class and status. The tattoo is in the tattoo on the basis of the development of, take electric tattoo machine, special color pigment, colorful, pattern is also more. With the development of society tattoo has become a multidisciplinary comprehensive art form, which combines art, culture, medicine, psychology in one, with a certain edge. Fujian people to snake totem tattoo custom ancient three generations, Fujian inhabited at least seven mutually exclusive indigenous tribes, ancient literature called "seven Min". At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu destroyed the Yue State, some of the Yue people disappeared into Fujian, the history of Fujian natives of this period for the "Min Yue", they like to live by the water, accustomed to water fights, good at using the boat, the most important custom is to take the snake as a totem, tattooed hair, and practiced primitive sorcery. Shuo Wen Jie Zi" in the explanation of the word "Min" said: "Min, southeast Yue, snake species." The so-called "snake species", meaning that the Min Yue people take the snake as their ancestors, reflecting their totemic worship of snakes. In a fairly long period of time, this worship has always existed in the descendants of the Min Yue ethnic group. Such as Minhou boat-dwelling people, until the end of the Qing Dynasty is still "claiming to be a snake species", and is not shy about it. They painted and modeled the image of the snake in the palace and temple, regular worship. Put a snake on the ship, called "wooden dragon", praying for snake blessing the ship safe, if you see the snake away from the ship, it is thought to be an ominous sign. During the Qing Dynasty, women of boat-dwelling villagers in the Fuzhou area had silver hairpins in their hair buns in the shape of a snake with an angular head, which symbolized not forgetting one's ancestor.

Witchcraft, which complements primitive religious beliefs, is also prevalent among the Minyue people. Min Yue people popular broken hair tattoo custom, "Han Shu - Yan help pass" said: "(Min) Yue, outside of the land, the people of tattooed hair also." This is actually a primitive witchcraft "imitation", cut off the hair, tattooed on the body of the snake design, used to scare away the water monster. Such as "Saying Yuan - Feng make" said: the Vietnamese "劗 hair tattoos, brilliant chapter, like the dragon child, will avoid the water god." For a long period of time, the descendants of the Min-Yue ethnic group have retained the custom of tattooing their hair. Yue Wu became famous during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and Emperor Wu of Han was convinced of it. He ordered the construction of a shrine in the imperial palace and the installation of a Yue Witch to pray for longevity by using the "chicken divination" of the Yue people.

Translation: (I got this tattoo) It's because I've always loved you Tattoos have been found on Egyptian mummies buried around 2000 BC. Tattoos are mentioned in accounts of the Thracians, Greeks, Gauls, ancient Germans and ancient Britons. In ancient Rome, criminals and slaves were tattooed. Tattoos were banned throughout Europe after the rise of Christianity, but remained in the Middle East and elsewhere. Tattoos were again found among the Indians and Polynesians of the Americas when Europeans came into contact with these peoples during the Age of Exploration. Tattoo parlors for European and American seafarers appeared in many port cities around the world under the influence of the Polynesians and the Japanese. The first electric tattoo machine was patented in the United States in 1891. The United States became the origin of new tattoo designs. Especially after the spread of American tattoo drawings around the expression of seafaring life, military content, patriotic ideas, romantic mood and religious enthusiasm of the theme, in the world tends to standardize. early 20th century with national characteristics of the style has gradually disappeared.

In the 19th century, American criminals were tattooed when they were released, and British deserters were tattooed. Later, Siberian prisons and Nazi concentration camps were also marked with tattoos. 20th century street gangs and motorcycle gangs were often marked with tattoos, and tattoos were popular among upper-class men and women in Britain in the late 19th century. Tattoos are now extinct in most parts of the world, with the exception of special medical uses or the European, American and Japanese types of tattoos, which are the subject of renewed interest in the 1990s.