Chinese calligraphy tattoos
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Chinese calligraphy tattoos are
tattoos of Chinese characters in a calligraphic style
. Today, Chinese calligraphy tattoos can be found worldwide.
Calligraphy
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History
In pre-modern China, textual tattoos were used as a punishment for criminals. Criminals would get textual tattoos on their cheeks and foreheads of the crime that they committed and would therefore have their crime on display for the rest of their lives.[2]
Tattoos of Chinese characters and Japanese kanji are common in the modern Western world; often the characters used are ungrammatical, meaningless or incorrectly drawn, as neither the tattooist nor the recipient understand the languages in question and they merely choose the characters based on their aesthetic appearance.[3][4][5][6][7]
See also
References
- ^ Yee, Chiang (2014). "Chinese Calligraphy". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- S2CID 144291158.
- ISBN 9783825801557– via Google Books.
- ^ "Chinese Alphabet Nonsense | East Asia Student". eastasiastudent.net.
- ^ B, A. "Stupid Chinese Character Tattoos That Make No Sense".
- ^ "30 People Fluent In Chinese/Japanese Share The Worst Tattoos They've Seen".
- ISBN 9781610690768– via Google Books.