There were no tattoo guns in ancient times, so how did they get their tattoos?
In an era of more and more open-mindedness, tattoos have become a kind of existence that can be freely chosen, some people use it as a fashion element, and others do it to leave some meaningful marks on their bodies.
The patterns of tattoos are also becoming more and more diverse, but this is inseparable from the advanced level of tattoos, but tattoos are not the patent of modern people, as early as ancient times, the ancients had a way to leave patterns on the skin.
As a result, many people are very curious, were there tattoo guns in ancient times, what methods did the ancients use to carry out tattoos, and what is the significance of tattoos in ancient times?
Although tattoos are still not very common in modern times, people are much less controversial about tattoos than they used to be, and in simple terms, they are about respecting other people's interests.
But in ancient times, tattoos were first called "tattoos", as the name suggests, Wen is the meaning of words, that is, to leave words on the body, and this was also called "ink punishment" in ancient times.
Usually to punish some criminals, the word "prisoner" is tattooed on their faces, first on the skin of the person, and then the ink and other colored materials are poured on the wound, so that a long-term mark is formed.
When watching the Water Margin, Song Jiang tattooed the word "prisoner" on his forehead after he was imprisoned, and the punishment of ink punishment was quite extensive, and many crimes were punished with ink punishment.
Although it sounds like this criminal law is not so heavy now, at that time, under the premise of not using anesthetics, it was very painful to cause trauma to the skin, and on the other hand, the ancients attached great importance to destroying the appearance.
For example, they will not even cut off their own hair easily, let alone have the mark of a prisoner permanently marked on their faces, and it is precisely because of this aspect that they will set this as a kind of punishment.
There are even some criminals who commit suicide after being released because they really can't bear such insults and other people's colored glasses, and although they do not pose a threat to the lives of the criminals, the psychological trauma is enormous.
It can be seen that ink punishment was also a relatively cruel punishment at that time, until the Qin and Han dynasties, ink punishment was abolished, but he did not really disappear from the stage of history, but at the end of the Tang Dynasty, he was once again used by people.
This time, the use of the army, contrary to the previous one, has become the mark of the army soldiers.
At that time, the emperor believed that the soldiers and the people should be separated, so all soldiers who enlisted in the army had to tattoo specific words on their bodies, which was also to make it easier for the emperor to manage and rule.
In the Song Dynasty, because it was often difficult to recruit soldiers, criminals would be expanded into the army, and even included in the army as a punishment, and over time, the difference between criminals and soldiers tended to be reduced in the eyes of ordinary people.
The township soldiers also tattooed on their faces, but the township soldiers were not professional soldiers, but temporarily transferred peasant soldiers, and tattooing on their faces would also make them inferior, so they were changed to tattoos on their hands.
Until the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, tattoos not only had tattoos, but also began to have some patterns.
Folk tattoos are usually based on individuals, asking some words or patterns with meaning on the body, for example, there will be some very patriotic people, who want to do their part for the country, they will tattoo the words "loyal to the country" and other words on the body.
Or people who want to become dragons and phoenixes in the world will tattoo phoenixes or dragons on their bodies, which means good and auspicious, and Lu Zhishen also has the title of "flower monk" because of the tattoos on his body.
However, tattoos are also circulated among the people, and the imperial court still has rules that officials are not allowed to tattoo tattoos on their bodies, and this idea has continued for a long time.
The tools used by the ancients for tattooing also sound a bit scary, before the use of needles, the ancients used an awl, scratched the skin with a tool, and then applied ink to paint, when the wound healed, it would leave the words.
However, because of the unrefined tools and rough techniques, usually the wound is not so smooth, and even scar hyperplasia will occur, and then a needle is used to dip the paint and prick the desired pattern.
Although tattoos were generally considered bad in ancient times, tattoos have also been accumulated over a long period of time, and with the open-mindedness of modern people, there are no longer so many voices of doubt.
Tattoos are a personal preference, and in modern times it has nothing to do with social status, and there is no phenomenon that people with tattoos are very powerful, and if you don't like it, you have to respect the choices of others.
