Qiao Feng in Dragon Eight Branches is a Khitan who was raised by Song people. So how did Qiao Feng identify himself as a Khitan? Is he saw a few qidan people in yanmenguan, chest tattoo of the wolf, and his own chest, also stabbed with an identical wolf, "for a while, Qiao Feng finally really know that he is indeed a qidan people. The wolf head in this box must be a symbol of their tribe. I think everyone has been stabbed since childhood. "But the" custom "of the Khitan people stabbing the wolf's head in the chest was actually invented by Jin Yong. From the historical data of Qidan, there is no record of wolf tattoo.
Jin Yong wrote: "When Qiao Feng was two or three years old, he first met someone. He saw the head of the green wolf stabbing him in the chest. Growing up, he naturally has no different ideas. Later when I was old, I asked my parents. Qiao Sanhuai and his wife all said that the graphics were beautiful and praised, but they didn't say where they came from. During the Northern Song Dynasty, personal tattoos were very common, even from neck to toe. Dasong inherited the Jiangshan of the Chai family in the later Zhou Dynasty. Guo Wei, the founding emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, had a sparrow on his neck, so he was called Guo Kuer. At that time, tattoos were a fashion. Nine times out of ten, Qiao Feng never doubted the beggar brothers. "This description is in line with the history of the Song Dynasty.
Jin Yong's "tattoo" was generally called "tattoo", "carving green", "flower embroidery", "literary embroidery" and "brocade style" in Song Dynasty. Today we call it "tattoo". Tattoos were very popular from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. When we went to see the Water Margin in Shi Naian, several heroes in Liangshanpo were tattooed: "Nine dragons" entered history and "stabbed a dragon"; "Short-lived Jiro" Ruan Xiaowu, with "Green Leopard" tattooed on his chest; "Yang Xiong", "presents a flower embroidery like indigo"; "Two-tailed scorpion" Jebel, "There are two Yaksa on two legs"; King Gong was nicknamed "Huahu" because he was covered with tiger spots and swallowed a tiger's head on his neck. Lu is also "embroidered with flowers on his back", and his nickname "Flower Monk" comes from this kind of flower embroidery.
Of course, the Liangshan hero with the most beautiful tattoo belongs to the prodigal son Yan Qing. He is covered with flowers and embroidered, but he looks like a jade pavilion with soft jade. In "Taishan Courtesy", he "took off his shirt" and revealed his embroidered body. The audience couldn't help but "applaud the price" and looked stunned; Opponent Ren Yuan "saw his embroidery and was anxious to keep fit", and his heart also showed five points of timidity.
Even Li Shishi, the owner of a brothel in Shi Jing, heard that Yan Qing has the beauty of tattoos. When Yan Qing visited, Li Shishi made a request: "I heard that my brother has a good figure and can embroider. How about taking a look? " Yan Qing said with a smile: "Although I have some embroidery on my humble body, how dare I take off my clothes in front of my wife!" Li Shishi said, "Son of the Golden Sports Society, where can I ask about naked clothes?" "Three times five times, be sure to please. Yan Qing had to take off his shoulders. Li Shishi saw it and was very happy. He held out a sharp jade hand and touched him.
The description of Water Margin is not fiction. Tattoos were very popular among Song people, especially among soldiers. Jane Yizhi, a note novel in the Southern Song Dynasty, mentioned several tattooed soldiers: "Wang Langchao of Zhong Yi, a native of Taiyuan, was physically strong, brave and powerful, good at riding and shooting, with double flags tattooed on his face"; There is also "picking and blocking soldiers to wear flowers, clothing Taoist costumes, customs are mostly carved with their products, so the purpose is' flowers'". Huyan Zan, a famous soldier in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote the word "Kill a thief with his heart" all over his body, and even his wife and servants tattooed "Kill a thief with his heart". Yue Fei, whom we are very familiar with, has the words "loyal to the country" on his back, which is also a tattoo; Zhang Jun, who is as famous as Yue Fei, once "chose the youngest person and stabbed him from below the hip to the foot, which is called" flower leg ". Shi Jing's old wave drifters boast of this. " Tattoos spread from the army to the streets.
Most people who love tattoos on the streets are "street hooligans" and "floating population" in Ren Xia. For example, there was a man in Jizhou who "married a thief" and his name was Liu Xie. He was named "Liu Hua" and called himself "Green Lion" because he "carved a green jade". There is a hero named Zheng Xin in Kaifeng Prefecture. "There are three immortals fighting swords in his left arm and five ghosts catching dragons in his right arm." "Build a royal screen on your chest, and carry Bashan Dragon out of the water on your back"; At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, prostitutes in Kaifeng went out for an outing, and there were always "three or five tattooed evil teenagers riding horses" behind them. These "evil teenagers" are called "flower-legged horses" because of tattoos on their thighs. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the outlaws who made waves in Qiantang River also had tattoos: "Hundreds of good swimmers in Qiantang River were all wearing tattoos and holding ten colorful flags, and rushed forward to meet the challenge, wandering in the whale wave Wan Ren, changing their bodies and their flags were slightly wet to brag."
As far as the wind direction is concerned, it is not necessarily "bad teenagers" who like tattoos, but a temporary fashion. The Song people said, "Today, all secular people have tattoos, statues of ichthyosaurs, flying immortals, ghosts and gods, or flowers." On the page of eye drops handed down from the Song Dynasty, the zaju actor on the right has tattoos on his arms, and the patterns are like fish dragons.