How did the ancient people tattoo?

"Youyang Miscellaneous Chopping Block" is recorded:

There are like tattooed middle-aged two teenagers

"When the Daning Square force Zhang Gan, the left shoulder of the Za said, "life is not afraid of the King of Beijing Zhaoyin", the right shoulder said, "the death of the King of Yama"."

There are literary youth

"Wang Li Nu, to money five thousand, called the Zagong can chest and abdomen for the Mountain Pavilion courtyard, pools and pavilions, grasses and trees, birds and animals, all fully equipped, fine as the color."

"Zhao Wujian, Za one hundred and six places, the Fanyin pan magpie, etc., around the shoulders of the prick said: "wild ducks beachside hosting, towards being migratory birds tip. Suddenly scared to fly into the water, stay alive to this day."

There are rogues and villains

"On the street of the city, the villains, the rate of scalping and skin zha, and prepare the shape of many things. The army of the strong robbers, to the snake set restaurant, catching sheep spleen hit people."

There are funny people

"Gao Ling County caught skeletonizer Song Element, stabbed seventy one, the left arm, said: "In the past has been before the family is not poor, the bitter will be money to make friends. Now lost the way to find a friend, traveling through the mountains without a person." Right arm pricked gourd, on the human head, such as puppet theater Guo Gong. The county officials did not understand, asked, said the gourd spirit also."

There are brainwashed powder

"Jingzhou street son Ge Qing, brave and not skin scratching, since the neck has been pricked down all over the Bai Juyi Sherman poem. Cheng style often with Jing guest Chen to call to watch, so that it is self-interpretation, the back can also be secretly remembered. The opposite finger of its zha, to "not this flower favor chrysanthemum", there is a person holding a cup in the chrysanthemum bush. And "yellow valerian forest cold with leaves", refers to a tree, hanging valerian tree, valerian arena lock wins absolutely fine. Where engraved more than thirty places, the first body is not perfect, Chen to call for "white Sherman line poetry map" also."

Jealous woman

"Room Rufu wife Cui, sex taboo, around the maidservant shall not be made up high buns, the month to Yan fat a bean, powder a money. There is a new maid, makeup slightly better, Cui said: "You good makeup? I make up for you!" Was made to carve its eyebrows, to fill in the green, burn the lock beam, burn the two corners of its eyes, the skin with the hands of the scorched volume, to Zhu Fu. And scabs off, scar like makeup."

Shu people are best at tattooing, pricked pattern like painting up, that is because the ink used is good. Professional tattoo masters, there are a variety of tattoo patterns, according to the person's preferences to choose the pattern, stabbing strike brush with graphite, lifelike tattoos on the completion of the tattoo, simply tattoo world of printing.

After the Tang Dynasty, after the Zhou Guo Wei neck pricked with flying sparrows, known as Guo Tweed. Water Margin", Lu Junyi see Yan Qing a snow practice like white flesh, so he asked a carving green master, to Yan Qing pricked all over the body flower embroidery. This shows that at least the Song Dynasty is still more popular tattoo.

As for Yue Fei's back was carved by his mother (first and foremost, regardless of the truth of the story), my personal guess, is that it originated from the system of tattooing the face of soldiers. This system began at the end of the Tang Dynasty, prevalent and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The end of the Tang Dynasty, Yunchou warlord Zhu Jin, in order to deal with Zhu Wen's large-scale attack to recruit hundreds of brave men into the army. Branding double geese in the forehead, known as the "geese are" began to recruit and prevent desertion, and then gradually evolved into a system, only qualified for the examination, face tattoo, only counted as a military, and is subordinate to the military for life, can not engage in other occupations.