From the pottery color culture to samsung mound site, tattoo origin has been a mystery, tattoo culture originated from where?

There are records about tattooing from ancient China, and since the pre-Qin era tattooing is to stab words on prisoners' faces. In the ancient Chinese canon, there have been tattooing, skeletonizing, zhaqing, point green, carving green and other words, and other tattoos to use as a warning example such as the story of mother in law stabbing words.

Tattoos are originated in China, but the beginning of a penalty, "ink torture" ~ because the ancients, "the body of the parents of the parents of the hair" concept is very deep, cutting hair is a kind of punishment, not to mention in the body tattooed on the words / patterns can not be eliminated. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

Later there were also in the face of the body of the slave in a conspicuous position tattoo or totem, proving that "the slave belongs to my family", so that even if the slave escaped, other people will also know that the slave is the family of who will be taken back to the umm ...... This point in China and Egypt, such as ancient countries have. Egypt and other ancient countries.

Really let tattoos evolve into a kind of "decoration" it ~ from tattoo eyebrows, tattoo lips began. In fact, the development of tattoos to the late stage, but also become a personal symbol and decoration, from the "Water Margin" can be seen ah ~

Tattoos into Europe a lot of claims, I was the paper mentioned in the huge ship from Asia loaded with goods (souvenirs), there is a body full of totem tattoos of the old sailor in the Mediterranean coast unloading, a lot of Europe's upper-class people saw, once know there is this form of things. know that there is this form of things, the next is the evolution and development of their own ~

Tattoos in the United States rose most notably because of the World War, that time a lot of U.S. soldiers thick and sturdy head of the two eagles, anchors and other types of tattoos, but also to make tattoos of this form of artistic expression of the mass popularization it ~