break hair and tatoo

break hair and tatoo

Cut hair tattoo is to cut short hair and tattoo.

custom

< UL > < li > broken hair < / Li > < / UL > "broken hair" is to cut (trim) hair. It has been recorded in the historical records and the Hanshu, and it is said in the historical records. Wu Taibo's family that Taibo and Zhongyong were men who ran to jingman, and their writings were broken. "Zuo Zhuan" Ai Gong seven years said: Zhongyong in Wu, "cut hair tattoo, naked as decoration.". < UL > < li > tattoo < / Li > < / UL > in the pre Qin period, the ancient Yue people lived in the south, which was warm, humid and infested by snakes. For their own safety, they took the snake as an important totem worship, stabbed and dyed the snake pattern on the human body to avoid the attack of animals in the water. Ancient Yue people regard snakes as their own kind and worship them as their ancestors. Tattooing is a way of taking them as a sign. In addition, because Ganyue people had lived in the hot climate, rivers and lakes of Chu and Yue for a long time, their hair was cut off for swimming and tattooing to avoid the disaster of snakes and insects. This is probably the main reason why Ganyue people cut off their hair and tattoos.

Allusion

Huainanzi yuandaoxun: "in the south of Jiuyi, there are few land affairs and many water affairs, so the people cut off their hair and tattoo to look like insects." "Shanyaxing" (Cao Cao of Han Dynasty): "Taibo Zhongyong, the benevolence of Wang De. To do a hundred generations is to cut off hair and tattoo. "