Why is it that almost all of the Liangshan heroes inside Water Margin have tattoos?

"Water Margin" many people have tattoos, indeed, because the Song Dynasty has this kind of trend, in the Jianghu of the Great Song Dynasty, it is the peak of the ancient Chinese tattoo.

Water Margin in the more famous a few tattoos

Tianwei Xing nine dragon Shi: into Shi Jin is a playboy, since childhood, the skin is very, parents simply can not control, so his father looked for someone to teach him to learn the skills, Shi Jin like to play with all kinds of sticks, but also invited professional masters tattooed on the body of the nine dragons, all over the chest and back of his chest and the back of the back and two arms, so that the dance sticks a more powerful feeling.

The Lone Star flower monk Lu Zhishen: Lu Zhishen was an officer, because of righteousness killed, ran away to become a monk, Lu Zhishen known as the flower monk, not because he is a sex maniac, but because of the tattoos on his body, this tattoo is when he was a monk before tattooed on the back of the spine to the back arm tattooed with floral patterns!

Tian Qiaoxing prodigal son Yan Qing: Yan Qing is Lu Junyi's family, Lu look at him all white meat, called a master craftsman to Yan Qing body tattooed all over the body of the flower embroidery, Yan Qing also often participate in a [Sai Jin body] tattoo competition, times to win, Yan Qing this body flower embroidery also the famous prostitute Li Shishi fascinated by the soul, can't help but touch the hands of the love is difficult to their own.

Tian sin star short-lived Erlang Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaowu is a fisherman origin, water kung fu, chest stabbed with a green lush leopard. The star of the heavenly prison sick Guansuo Yang Xiong, Yang Xiong is the two hospitals escort prison, but also the role of the executioner, his flower embroidery is stabbed on both arms, Shi Naian wrote Linjiang Xian praise Yang Xiong, the first sentence is: "two arms carved green engraved tender jade".

The sky crying star two-tailed scorpion Xie Bao, Xie Bao from the hunter's family, two legs stung with two flying night fork. Earth Jiexing Hua Xianghu Gong Wang, Gong Wang from Dongchangfu Vice General, because of the body tattooed with tiger spots, neck tattooed with a tiger's head, got a nickname "Hua Xianghu".

Tattoo source to flourish and then banned

Early tattoo culture with the Central Plains civilization is not directly related to the earliest tattoos are mainly distributed in eastern China, southeast generation, where the tribes from the rivers, lakes, seas and jungles to find food, because of the different from the Central Plains region of the farming culture, known as the barbarians by the Chinese people, these "barbarians! The life of these "barbarians" is full of uncertainties and dangers.

In the process of fighting against the bewildering nature, the tattoo culture of carving patterns on their skin and dressing up as beasts was developed. The Dongyi and Baiyue believed that the tattoos would give them the power of the dragon to avoid drowning and drowning!

While the Central Plains people tattoo, but as a kind of punishment, stabbing the prisoner's body, applying ink and dyeing it black to form a permanent mark, collectively known as the ink penalty. Generally in the face tattoo, the penal part of the forehead mainly.

Tattoo popular in the Central Plains is from the Tang Dynasty, the Tang culture of inclusiveness, the Han barbarians despise each other to change the situation, so that foreign things, foreign cultures influence and change the high cultural prejudice of the Han people. Tattooing this kind of body art to get romantic narcissistic Tang Dynasty people favor, popular among the city, there is a saying: "Chang'an teenagers more heroes, carcass arm competition than the carving of the green". As tattoos are very popular, so there are a lot of tattoo artisans, in the "Chinese social history from the copy" wrote a tattoo hobby is Bai Juyi's iron fan, tattooed more than 30 Bai Juyi's poems on the body.

The end of the Tang Dynasty, after the Zhou Emperor Guo Wei small, met a Taoist priest, in the left side of his neck tattooed a sparrow, the right side of the neck tattooed a pile of grain, said until the sparrow ate to the grain is the day he came out of the woodwork, and then Guo Wei into the army, in the chaotic world of the killing of a bloody road, the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, after the emperor of the Kuo Wei, self-proclaimed "sculpture of the green sky! "

The first time I saw the world, I saw the world, I saw the world!

Guo Wei's tattoos, in the Song Dynasty played a great role model, tattoos by the development of the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty five generations tattoo soldiers popular, to the Song Dynasty has formed a solid social foundation, but also reached the peak of tattooing in ancient China.

Look at Yan Qing's tattoos and the competitions he participated in, it can be imagined that a lot of people like tattoos, but also formed a tattoo enthusiasts organization "Jin body society", often organizing members of the collective activities, a group of bare-chested men, all over the body flower embroidery, the competition whose tattoos are good-looking, in general, the Song people tattoos for the beauty of the tattoos, the tattoos of the elephant, which is the colorful! Peacock tail feathers, can greatly increase the personality and charm, so Yan Qing this get the most beautiful tattoo embroidery fascinated Li Shishi can not hold.

Song tattoo themes are also rich and diverse, the content of a variety of graphics and text, the Yuan Dynasty inherited the Song style, but the official began to interfere, tattooing style has seen a decline in the end of the Yuan Dynasty, tattooing the wind and flourish up to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang issued a strict order, all tattooed sentenced to banishment for military service, tattoos in the Ming and Qing dynasties is basically banned.