Tattoos, commonly known as tattoos, are called nirvana in ancient classical Chinese. They paint an ideal picture on people's monotonous skin, become the eternity of life, and keep memories as the most beautiful picture in life. It is not the exclusive symbol of bad people. The tattoo pattern is always to please yourself and others, no matter where your tattoo is, whether it is words or patterns. Some people say that tattoos are a symbol of beauty, mystery, sexiness and charm, a manifestation of unique personality and self-expression, and an expression of personal beliefs.
In some groups, tattoos are a symbol of courage, which can be recognized by peers. In underworld gangs, tattoos are sometimes one of the tests of joining, so people feel that tattoos are linked to gangs. In modern Hong Kong, gang members usually wear dragons on their left arms and white tigers on their right arms, so there is a saying "Zuo Long, right white tiger" to represent gang members.
With the opening of social atmosphere and the rise of body expression culture, people can gradually accept the form of body expression. Tattoo lovers will form friendship societies, hold exhibitions regularly, regard tattoo patterns as social works of art, regard famous tattoo master as artists, and sociologists or anthropologists will also study this violent pop culture from a popular perspective. Many artists choose tattoos to emphasize their personal style. For example, Faye Wong and Nicholas Tse once tattooed a pair of "lovers' clothes" tattoos; Beckham tattooed the name of his beloved wife Victoria on his left forearm in four Indian characters.
Foreign culture
In western society, people who like to write novel patterns often write a few Chinese characters that are not necessarily coherent. For example, NBA players tattooed the word "Mianzhu" on the right upper arm, and NBA player Iverson also tattooed the word "Zhong" on his neck.
In Hongkong, I can write Hindi characters, while in East Renye Fang, I choose English characters as tattoo patterns.
African tattoo
The primitive tattoo art in Africa mainly exists in Ethiopia, Africa. Indigenous people of Berti tribe, Moses tribe and Zulma tribe will tattoo original tattoo patterns on their bodies, among which Calamo Joe in Uganda is very famous for his scar tattoo. Scar tattoo, just from the above four words, you can feel the primitiveness and barbarity of this tattoo. It turns out that this tattoo is really barbaric. When tattooing, the tattoo artist picks up the skin with a blade, and then cuts the skin with the blade. This process lasts for more than ten minutes, during which no narcotic drugs are used, and then a drug is filled in the wound, so that when the tattoo wound heals, a scar tattoo is formed. This scar tattoo pattern has no fixed tattoo position, such as forehead, shoulders, stomach, chest and so on. Tattooers are mostly African teenagers, and "tattooers" are mostly parents of teenagers. In order not to let his family "lose face", tattooed teenagers will hold back their tears even if they are in pain. Because this blade-like tattoo tool is used, infectious diseases caused by tattoos are also very common in the local area.