What's the name of the Indian female painter's thing?

Hand-painted henna in India is an ancient art of human body decoration, which is popular in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and other regions.

Hand-painted henna is not limited to weddings. In India, this art has a history of thousands of years. Such a group of craftsmen can often be seen in the streets of India. They are called hand-painted painters. A piece of plastic cloth on the floor and several brushes made of conical paint tubes are their creative tools.

This hand-painted material is called henna. People pick the leaves of this shrub and grind them into very fine paste, which has become an important painting material for Indian hand-painted artists. Besides hand painting, henna is also used to dye hair. Many old Indians can't see white hair on their heads because of the blessing of henna. Henna is also known as the natural raw material for plant hair dyeing.

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There has always been a saying in Indian society that "no wedding is complete without Mahdi". On the night before the wedding, the bride's future mother-in-law will order the first hand-painted pattern, and then experienced hand-painted artists will draw the most exquisite and complicated patterns. The whole process will take at least seven or eight hours. The next day, the bride with photos of her hands and feet will go to her husband's house to start a new life.

In the days that followed, some brides evaded housework on the grounds of hand painting. When she went back to visit her family ten days later, her mother was relieved to see that her daughter's hand painting had not been returned.

The bride's hand-painted patterns are also very particular. Many flowers represent the blessing to the bride's "many children and many blessings" Peacock and lotus are the national birds and traditional Chinese paintings of India, symbolizing beauty and wealth. An elephant with a protruding nose represents family prosperity and good luck.

Sometimes naughty brides and girlfriends will turn hand-painted into games. They hide the groom's name in the bride's hand-painted patterns, and only when they find their own names in these patterns can the groom start a sweet wedding night.

In fact, this kind of female body painting before and after the wedding can be seen everywhere in the whole eastern world, from South Asia to Southeast Asia. Many cultural traditions in Asia have the custom of women painting on palms, arms and feet.