Broken hair tattoo(duàn fā wén shēn)

Broken hair tattoo

Broken hair tattoo, idiom, from ancient literature, pronunciation Du à NF à w é NSH à n, that is to cut short hair, body tattoo pattern meaning.

custom

"Broken hair" is to cut (trim) the 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. In the seventh year of AI Gong in Zuo Zhuan, it is said that Zhong Yong was in Wu and "cut off his hair and tattoo, and naked as a decoration". Zhong Yong and his elder brother and uncle took the initiative to avoid their position, and came to Wuxi and Changshu to establish the kingdom of Gou Wu, cut off his hair and tattoo, and cultivated with the people, and actively integrated into the local society. In Yue aristocratic family, the ancestors of Yu Yue were granted the title of Kuaiji, which means that the descendants of Yu came to Yue from the common customs of the people. It is also recorded in the book of geography of the Han Dynasty, but it adds a functional explanation to the custom of breaking hair and tattooing. The explanation of tattoo in Huai Nan Zi Tai Zu Xun is that "it's hard to treat skin, greedy for leather and bleed from wounds, but the more you do it, the more you seek honor." < 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

record

Zuo Zhuan, the seventh year of AI Gong, says: "Uncle Duan was entrusted to administer Zhou rites, and Zhong Yong's successor, who cut off his hair and tattooed his body and wore it naked as a decoration. It's not a rite." "Huainanzi. Yuandaoxun:" in the south of Jiuyi, there are few land affairs and many water affairs, so the people cut off their tattoos 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. " Shiji · zhaoshijia · Zhengyi records that the method of Yue's human body "carves its muscle, and uses qingdannie as its soul." They don't comb their crowns, their hair is cut off, and their tattoos are painted with mineral and plant pigments. Huang miaozhang believes that there are various explanations for this custom, such as the theory of beauty, honor, witchcraft, totem and so on.

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