What is Tattoo
What is Tattoo
Tattoo, Body Painting Or tattoo is a picture of the symbols on the skin of the body in the carving using a needle similar devices. Usually, images and symbols that are decorated with colored pigments. Long ago, people were still using manual techniques and the traditional materials for tattoo someone. Eskimo people for example, using a needle from animal bones to the process of making rajahnya. In the Shaolin Temple put on a hot copper barrel to print the image on the skin of the dragon. Disciples of Shaolin is considered eligible for the symbol is then put their arms in a kind of dragon prints on both sides of the hot copper barrel.
It seems, according to history, the tattoo was originally discovered in Egypt at the time of construction of The Great Pyramids, and Egypt as people expand their empire, the art of tattooing spread even participate. The development also involved spreading. The development of Crete, Greece, Persia and Arabia further expand the arts. Approximately 2000 BC, the art of tattooing spread to China.
The word tattoo comes from the Tahitian "tatu" which means "to mark something." The purpose of tattooing are varied, ranging from cultural reasons to something that is considered fashionable and trendy. Tattoos have something very important in a ritual or tradition. In Borneo, for example, women tattooing himself as a symbol that indicates their particular expertise. Maori in New Zealand made tattoo spiral-shaped carvings on the face and buttocks. According to them this is a sign for a good offspring. Salomon islands, torehkan tattoo on the face of women as a rite to mark a new stage in their lives. Almost the same as above, people in Sudan Nuer tribe cursed tattoo to mark the site of initiation on boys. The Indians paint and sculpt your body to increase the beauty of their skin or show a certain social status.
