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I have a tap tattoo on my back. It's not going well. What's your opinion?

Tattoos are not learned later, but passed down from family. My grandfather said that we have a history of 500 to 600 years. This is an ancient vein, but it was called tattoo in ancient times.

At present, tattoos have always been unpopular. Some people generally think that street gangsters and talented people have tattoos, and those who have tattoos are all bad people. When they see the tattoos around them, they will avoid them. Some people even think that it is a western civilization from the west. In fact, tattoos have been in China for thousands of years.

In ancient times, the custom of the people of the wisdom tribe was that animals were totems, tattooed constantly, and primitive witchcraft prevailed. The ancients used ink needles to make some patterns on the skin, which were considered auspicious and later totems, but these patterns evolved, and there was even a saying that they were totems against gods.

Besides, tattoos actually evolved from a small side door used by Zhouyi.

According to ancient principles, China's tattoos are mostly dragons and phoenixes, Guan Gong, carp, hag, kuixing and Buddha statues. Due to the influence of foreign culture, many friends in China like traditional Japanese geisha, prajna, ghost face and samurai. Of course, tattoos evolved from ancient totems, which is equivalent to asking God to put on his upper body and pray for God's blessing.

My grandfather said that tattooing changes a person's life and is a life totem that accompanies him all his life. There are many taboos, and tattoos are good luck and bad luck.

There are many evil things.

Today I want to talk about my experience, not only to dispel some prejudices for tattoo artists, but also to reveal some strange things. Go wherever you want. Say it. Let me talk about the first strange thing I encountered after I entered the business: the finishing touch.

By the way, tell friends who want to get tattoos about the origin and taboos of tattooed dragons.

Not long after graduation that year, I wanted to make a lot of money with this family-style tattoo technique and opened a tattoo shop in Chengxi Old Street. Who knew business was bleak?

Nowadays, young people like the freshness of European and American color patterns. I don't understand any old school style or new school style. There are too many grotesque demands. According to anime characters, fire fighters, ace, transformers, and even a stupid young man asked me to tattoo a watch on his hand. I said, don't you buy your own watch? As a result, people gave me a dirty look and left.

This is a typical case of traditional industries being impacted by trendy industries.

Later, I was also learning those small fresh color patterns and dark skull hunting styles, but I really couldn't compete with those of my peers. After all, there is a specialization in the art and the technique is very professional, and I learned the old tattoo technique handed down by my grandfather. In ordinary shops, only one or two gangsters and girls from hair salons ask me for some traditional tattoos, and sometimes there are no guests all day.

On this day, I was lying on the table in the shop, looking up tutorial videos online, thinking about studying new tattoos and making some money. A black luxury supercar stopped in front of the store, and a middle-aged man got off the luxury car, followed by two big bodyguards in black suits.

Middle-aged people wear Swiss watches to shop for a week, giving people a kind of domineering unique to those who have lived in the upper position for a long time. He sat down casually and shouted, "Brother! My name is Zhang Tianba. Are you Master Cheng? I'm from Hainan, can you change a map for me? "

Hainan made a special trip across the province to find my tattoo?

It took me a while to react and quickly got up from the computer desk. "Brother, my name is not widely known, nor is it an ancient name. How did my brother find me across provinces? "

After shopping for a week, Zhang Tianba frowned when he could see that it was very cold and cheerless.

"As for the tattoo exhibition in Hainan, the thin guy is called Li Shan, right? That clumsy boy went there to show off his cross-legged dragon so that no one else could see it. Brother, I can see it at a glance. It's a traditional tattoo technique, an old craft, and that technique is really capable. Not many people know this ancient law now. I asked who tattooed him, so I came to you. "

Speaking of tattoo exhibitions, that's something in our small circle.