Did tattoos originate in China? When exactly did tattoos start tattooing flowers?

When it comes to tattoos, we are no strangers, in these days, a lot of hipster men and women like to be tattooed on the body with all kinds of patterns to show their personality. So did tattoos originate in China? Tattoos and from when exactly began to tattoo flowers? China is the world's first country to use tattoos, tattoos began to appear in China during the Tang Dynasty.

1, The origin of tattoos

In our country, tattoos can be traced back to the Zhou Chao period, when tattoos are also called tattoos. There is a record in the Zuozhuan: the Yue people break their hair and tattoo. This shows that at that time tattoos were described as tattoos. However, in the Western Zhou period, tattooing was a means used to punish people, called the ink penalty, where people were first stabbed with words and then coated with ink and left on the sinner for a long period of time as a way of marking them. It is also recorded in the Shangshu, ? Ink punishment is a thousand? , which is an indication that the ink penalty was widely used at that time, and its penalty could be applied to nearly a thousand kinds of crimes. This also shows that the society at that time attached great importance to destroying people's faces or bodies, which is why the regime at that time adopted such a penalty to punish and deter criminals.

2. The Beginning of Tattooing

During the Tang Dynasty, tattooing began to fracture into tattooing patterns and words. This time prick pattern has been spread in the folk, the Five Dynasties period after the axis of the emperor Guo Wei on the neck tattoo has been lifelike flying sparrow, later generations of people therefore into Guo Wei for ? Flying Sparrow? During the period of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, there was a soldier surnamed Zhang who became a Taoist priest in his later years, but in his early years, he was nicknamed Zhang Huahan because he had a lot of tattoos on his neck.

But the customary beauty of tattooing is still only at the bottom of the society, in the feudal society, the official has been very resistant and do not promote tattooing. The Song Dynasty is even stipulated that the royal family, the clan and officials, no tattoos and tattoos on the body. What's more, it was forbidden to impose the penalty of face tattooing on officials who had committed crimes. China's famous general Di Qing during the Northern Song Dynasty, because of tattoos on the body and by the same dynasty of the eminent nobles mocked and despised for life.