Chinese Tattoos
Chinese tattoos are admired by many, there is something about Chinese characters that make people line up in the tattoo parlor, ready to set their stamp of powerful meaning that a Chinese tattoo portrays. A tattoo in China is known as “Chi Shen” or “Wen Sheh” literally translated the terms mean to puncture the body. The art of tattooing has been practiced in china for many years; however it is not affiliated with a social or cultural aspect of the Chinese culture.
How to find a Chinese Tattoo
In fact Chinese culture viewed their body as sacred and something not to destroy. Once upon a time, when a court found a criminal guilty of a crime, a tattoo would be placed on the criminals face, sort of like a stamp of shame and the criminal would be sent away for a numerous amount of years.
Rule of thumb when getting a Chinese tattoo, research, research, research! There is nothing more embarrassing than getting Chinese characters and you don't know the meanings. If you look up characters online back them up by cross referencing with other books, or actually get a native Chinese speaker that actually knows how to write in that dialogue.
There are countless stories where the symbol portrays hurtful or humorous things. Therefore make sure you know what you want and it if it has meaning make sure that meaning is something that you represent, even though the tattoo may look nice, you don't want to be called clown or ugly because that is what your tattoo says, and you thought it said something else.
Chinese tattoos Picture Gallery
Chinese Tattoos are unique and distinctive they are usually bold in ink and require no color or special effects to make them look great, they are already in a class of their own. So if you want to get a Chinese tattoo, make sure you know where to put it, just in case you don't feel like doing your research.
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