Who among historical figures has tattoos

Only Lu Zhishen among the historical figures had tattoos.

Flower Monk Lu Zhishen is almost unknown, and he got his nickname because of the flower-embroidered tattoos on his back. In the seventeenth episode of Water Margin, he himself explains to the green-faced beast Yang Zhi: "When people see the flower embroidery on my back, they call me the Flower Monk Lu Zhishen." During the Song Dynasty, tattooing was called flower embroidery. Tattooing, also known as tattooing, has a long history and tradition.

The primitive people worship totem, the development of the totem style with a knife or other sharp instrument on the body carved patterns and then add pigment to be long-term preservation of technology. Since knives are painful on the skin, perhaps it's better to keep the patterns simple. That's probably why you'll find tiger and leopard tattoos in primitive man, but not sunflower styles.

Lu Zhishen was originally a Wei Zhou Jingliu Fu Jiejian, because of the fight three punches to kill the bully Zhen Guanxi, in order to avoid the arrest of the government they became a monk, the name Zhishen. Afterward, he rescued Lin Chong, and went into exile, and fell into the grass with Yang Zhi and Wu Song at Erlong Mountain.

Lu Zhishen character characteristics

Lu Zhishen character is the most important feature is to the ruling class to take the initiative to challenge, take the initiative to attack, that is, the so-called "Zen staff to open up the road to danger, the precepts of the sword to kill all the unfair people". He is a hero against persecution, but not against their own persecution, but against the oppression of others and injustice, he not only "see the injustice, pull out the sword to help", and is "kill people must see blood, save people must be rescued," his father and daughter of the Jin's rescue and protection of Linchong are reflected in this. The protection of Lin Chong and the Jin's father and daughter are both reflected in this point.

Lu Zhishen is not just a brave man with hot blood and idealism, he is also not lacking in wisdom and the ability to practice. When he goes to trouble Zheng Tu, Lu Zhishen initially just buys meat, picking at it left and right, so that Zheng Tu can't hold back and takes the initiative to trouble him, so that Lu Zhishen rightfully fights back. After beating Zheng Tu to death, he pointed at Zheng Tu's corpse and said, "You swindled your way to death". Here, Lu Zhishen's rough-and-tumble character is also revealed.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Lu Zhishen