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Is there anything particular about the arowana in the tattoo design?

The dragon symbolizes a kind of temperament of people. Because we in China are descendants of dragons.

Fish means fish crossing the Longmen.

The significance of tattoos in the world

As early as the primitive human period, the ancients at that time would draw lines on their bodies and faces with white mud or fuel. Its function is to beautify itself and scare the enemy. Tattoos reflect the reverence of primitive society for totems and decorative arts. Now there are various tattoo customs all over the world.

Nigerians in Africa like to tattoo their tribal symbols on their faces. Some have swords on their foreheads, some have horizontal knife marks on their foreheads, some have scorpions on their faces and cheeks, and some have roosters.

At first, the Rotuga people in southern Sudan used animal patterns such as "dragon", "white tiger", "lion" and "vulture" as totem symbols of various tribes, tattooed on their faces, arms and bodies. Later, totem worship gradually disappeared, but tattooed faces were still used as beautiful decorations.

Tiwi people in Australia don't wear underwear, but only cover their lower bodies with cloth belts or gauze. They like to paint all kinds of colorful patterns on the exposed parts.

The shortest pygmies in the world, women take tattooed faces as a symbol of beauty, put a bunch of reeds protruding outward on their lips and hang a string of colored beads around their necks.

Bakutu men in Myanmar tattooed various colorful patterns on their bellies as decorations.

When New Zealand Maori tattoo, they pick the skin with a curved needle and cut off the top of the skin with a blade to become a point. After all the patterns are completed, they should be colored, scarred and patterned.

Bok people in the Amazon region of South America like nude tattoos, and pierce their lips and ears, hang beads and decorate them as mouth rings. The length of the mouth circle also marks the level of social status.

China ancient Jiangnan wuyue had the custom of tattooing. The skin was carved into tattoos, and later (Zhou's second son)' s granddaughter replaced the tattoos with embroidered clothes.

The ancient Egyptians invented tattoos, which are defined as the interpretation of social class and tribal alliance. It is estimated that in the Stone Age about14,000 years ago, there were mummies more than 4,000 years ago in the Egyptian pyramids, and the male and female nobles were each engraved with obvious tattoos.