The origin and development history of tattoos. How did tattoos become popular?

Tattoo as an art has been developed from totem worship through punishment tattooing and other processes, and has lasted for more than 3,000 years. As early as the primitive human period, the ancients would use white clay or fuel to draw lines on their bodies and faces. Its function is to beautify oneself and to deter the enemy. Tattoos are a reflection of primitive society's reverence for totems and decorative arts.

In "Water Margin", there are at least three important characters covered with tattoos: the flower monk Lu Zhishen, the nine-patterned dragon Shi Jin and the prodigal Yan Qing.

Tattooing since the pre-Qin era has been to tattoo words on prisoners’ faces as warnings. In ancient classics, there have been stories about tattoos, carvings, tattoos, dots, and carvings, such as mother-in-law tattoos.

In ancient Egypt, tattoos were used to distinguish social status. It was popular for women in the Victorian era in England to tattoo their lips in red, which is similar to modern beauty methods such as lip tattoos and eyebrow tattoos such as permanent makeup. The ancient method of tattooing, which could be 20 times more painful than today's techniques, involved using charcoal and water to create the ink, then using a hammer and thorns to drive it into the skin.

Tattoos began to gradually break away from the negative impression of tattoos as a partial punishment and evolved into a form of personal decoration. In many cultures, tattoos are a tradition and a symbol of social class and status. symbol. Tattooing is developed on the basis of tattooing. It uses an electric tattoo machine, specialized ink, rich colors and many patterns. With the development of society, tattoo has become a multi-disciplinary comprehensive art form.

The development history of tattoos

Tattoo as an art has been handed down from totem worship through punishment tattooing and other processes, and has lasted for more than 3,000 years. As early as the primitive human period, the ancients would use white clay or fuel to draw lines on their bodies and faces. Its function is to beautify oneself and to deter the enemy. Tattoos are a reflection of primitive society's reverence for totems and decorative arts.

3500 years ago

Tattoos were used in criminal law in China - called "ink punishment".

Ink punishment, also known as tattoo punishment and face tattooing, is a punishment in ancient China. The prisoner's face or forehead is tattooed with words or patterns, and then dyed with ink as a symbol of the person being punished.

The predecessor of tattoo is tattoo. Before the tattoo machine appeared, people used a needle dipped in ink to tattoo the pattern on the body one by one. The pattern was mostly based on the social atmosphere of soldiers, dragons and tigers. Mainly, many people do it in prison, because the tattoo is only black, not a special tattoo pigment. The color will turn blue and blue over time, so it is also called a tattoo.

In 2000 BC

Tattoos were found on Egyptian mummies. Records from the Thracians, Greeks, Gauls, ancient Germans, and ancient Britons all mention tattoos.

1st century

After the rise of Christianity, tattoos were banned across Europe, but the practice remained in the Middle East and other places.

16th to 17th centuries

Western sailors brought New Zealand’s colorful tattoo culture to Europe.

1691

The first voyager to bring tattoos back to Europe was known as the "Prince of Tattoos". He had a total of 338 tattoos on his body.

17th century

Edo (now Tokyo) is the cradle of traditional Japanese tattoos. The ukiyo-e paintings of Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Kuniyoshi made tattooing quietly rise among the people, and It has gradually become a symbol for "ordinary people" and many guilds such as firefighters, horsemen, and craftsmen to express their dissatisfaction with current affairs.

In 1840

Tattooed people, who were regarded as marginalized figures, appeared at the "Chicago World's Fair" and later entered the world spawned by such fairs. In a traveling circus.

Yantra Tattoo "Muay Thai Boxer", 2008-2011, Bangkok

19th Century

American criminals were required to have tattoos upon release, and British deserters were required to have tattoos. Later detainees in Siberian prisons and Nazi concentration camps were also tattooed.

In the mid-19th century

Tattoos became a way to convey private or social messages, show personal beliefs or affiliation with a group. From soldiers to prisoners, the skin of tattooed people has become a dossier of secrets.

1881

Samuel O’Reilly, one of America’s tattoo pioneers, invented the first electric tattoo machine.

In the late 19th century

Tattoos were popular among men and women in the upper class of Britain.

At the end of the 19th century

Tattooing was banned by the Japanese authorities.

After World War I

Most of the people who got tattoos were women. The reason was to commemorate their loved ones lost in the war. They usually had tattoos of birds, butterflies, red roses, or It's your lover's name.

At the beginning of the 20th century

Tattoos became popular as a classic in entertainment performances, and the "old-fashioned" style characterized by "thick outlines" gradually formed and became mainstream. In the 20th century, members of street gangs or motorcycle gangs often wore tattoos as markings. The national style of the early 20th century has gradually disappeared.

Tattoos are extinct or extinct in most parts of the world, with the exception of special medical uses or European, American and Japanese tattoo types, which were subjects of renewed interest in the 1990s.

In the late 1970s

Traditional tattoos in Oceania and Southeast Asia also experienced a revolution in the concepts of race, tribe or witchcraft: with the development of transportation and tourism , against the background of increasing communication, ancient tattoos have withstood the baptism of various social changes around the world.

During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s

Tattoos were banned as they were seen as corrupt and obscene.

In the 1970s

With the "Chicano" trend blowing in the US border prisons, Chicano tattoos first appeared; The prisoners are mostly Chinese and Hispanic gang members.

Chicano tattoos mostly represent loyalty to the organization, family, women and God. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, they were initially made with sewing needles, with thin lines, monotonous colors, and diverse patterns. They were mainly made by hand. It is usually a single color of black and gray, so it is also called "Mexican black and gray".

Today, although most Chinese people are still prejudiced against it, tattoos are regaining favor among more and more young people in the wave of global popular culture.