Travel Tour China

Monday, March 19, 2007

The Arty Mark on Uncovered Skin

Seems there are a number who have these, male or female, schooling or not, moneyed or penniless. Vivid or not, cartoon figure or Mandarin character, these are tediously and carefully imprinted, avoiding some drops of blood to spill over. You must be prying what the heck I am chattering about. Gee, it is all about the artistic tattoos that drive every young Chinese nuts.

Though the younger generation of China has welcomed the comeback of tattoos, it still seems a dishonor for the older people to have their skin imprinted with devised drawings. Having tattoos, by the way, is ignominy in the earlier Chinese dynasties since the only personalities who had these then were murderers, hooligans, and rapists.

But China's young people are never taken aback; in fact, they perceive it is a form of inventiveness expressed through fashion. It's not that history doesn't matter to them; it's just that having tattoos is a vogue and the total world agrees on it. Young Chinese people even hail the 35 percent of NBA icons who are casually sporting tattoos of varying sizes and styles. Moreover, tattoos, according to Chinese youth, are symbolic of their traits, values, and work that they are very selective of the design, putting more attention on the meaning than on the luxuriousness.

Surely, be it in history or fashion, the magnetism of tattoos has never really left China.

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