My name is Cheng You and I am a tattoo artist.

Tattoos are not learned later, they are family heirlooms, my father said that we have a history of five or six hundred years, and it is a very old lineage, but in ancient times, it was called tattoos.

Now tattoos have always been very unpopular, some people generally think that it is a gangster, a gangster tattoo, a talent tattoo, discrimination, that there are tattoos on the body is a bad guy, around you see someone tattoo to avoid it, and even some people think that it is the Western civilization from the West, in fact, tattoos have a history of thousands of years in China.

In ancient times, the custom of the intelligent tribal people was that the beast was a totem, a tattoo of broken hair, and primitive witchcraft prevailed, and the ancients used a needle with ink to pierce the bottom layer of the skin to make some patterns on the skin, so as to regard the auspicious, later totems but these patterns evolved, and even had the god totem on the back of the body.

Besides, the tattoo actually evolved from a small side door used by Zhou Yi.

This Chinese tattoo is divided according to ancient principles, mostly dragon and phoenix, Guan Gong, carp, yaksha, Kui Xing, Buddha, due to the impact of foreign culture, there are also many Chinese friends like Japanese traditional geisha, Pranya, ghost face, samurai, of course, tattoo this thing evolved from the ancient totem, which is equivalent to asking God to go on the body, please God bless.

My grandfather said that it is to change a person's fate with tattoos, which is a totem of life that accompanies his life, and there are many taboos.

There are many evil things.

Today, I want to talk about my experience, not only to remove some prejudice for tattoo artists, but also to confide in some strange things, where to talk about that, first of all, the first strange thing I encountered after entering the industry:

Finishing touch.

By the way, I would like to tell my friends who want to get a tattoo about the origin and taboo of tattooing dragons.

Not long after I graduated that year, I thought about making a lot of money with this family heirloom tattoo craft, and opened a tattoo parlor in Chengxi Old Street, who knew that the business was bleak.

Nowadays, young people, all like the kind of unconventionality of European and American color pattern style, what oldschool style, newschool style, I don't understand anything, there are too many strange requirements, according to the cartoon character pattern, what fire fist Ace, Transformers, and even a young man who wants me to tattoo a watch on his hand, I said that if you want a watch, won't you buy it yourself? As a result, they gave me a roll of the eyes, shook my hand and left.

This is a typical case of traditional industries being impacted by trendy industries.

Later, I was also learning those small fresh color patterns, as well as the hunting dark skull style above, but I really can't compete with those peers, after all, people are specialized in learning this, and the technique is also professional, and I will be the old tattoo skills passed down by my grandfather, usually in the store, only one or two gangsters, hair salon shop girls ask me to tattoo some traditional tattoos, sometimes there is no customer a day.

On this day, I was lying on the table in the store, looking up tutorial videos on the Internet, and was thinking about my own research on new tattoos to make some money to spend, when a black luxury supercar stopped in front of the store, and a middle-aged man got out of the luxury car, with two big Han bodyguards in black suits behind him.

The middle-aged man wore a Swiss watch to the store for a week, giving people a domineering attitude peculiar to those who have been in the top position for a long time, sat down with a big grin, and shouted, "Brother! My name is Zhang Tianba, are you Master Cheng? I'm from Hainan, can you change the picture for someone? ”

This is Hainan made a special trip across the province to find my tattoo?

I took a long time to react, and quickly got up from the computer desk, "Brother, the name of my store is unknown, and it is not a time-honored brand, how did my brother find me across the province?" ”

Zhang Tianba inspected the store for a week and could see that it was very deserted, and frowned.

"As far as Hainan's tattoo exhibition is concerned, that skinny guy is called Li Shan, right? The hairy boy went there to show off his cross-legged dragon, others can't see it, but I can see at a glance that it is a traditional tattoo technique, an old craft, that technique is really capable, and now there are not many people who will do this ancient method, I asked who tattooed him, and I came to you. ”

Speaking of tattoo exhibitions, that's something in our little circle.

Many outsiders who don't play with tattoos don't know that there is this exhibition, just like the comic conventions of young people now, but we are more undesirable than those so-called cosplay anime characters wearing rabbit ears. There are also people who tattoo directly on their necks and faces, and they all look like underworlds.

It is equivalent to a small-scale tattoo exchange meeting, which is unconventional and shows off personality.

But I didn't expect that Li Shan's little gangster would go to Hainan's tattoo exhibition to go to the waves, and he was still there to show off the tattoo I tattooed for him, which attracted the Zhang Tianba in front of me, but this is obviously a big business coming to the door, this posture must be a rich man, you can see it from the momentum.

Zhang Tianba walked around the store twice with two black-clothed bodyguards, and commented imposingly:

"Brother, you old craftsman seems to be having a bad time, the pearl is dusty, why don't you apply for an intangible cultural heritage or something? Brother, you are an old tattoo ordinary person can't understand, if you really have the ability, I will introduce you to a few big customers for you to know, many friends believe this. ”

I coughed, went straight in, and said, "Boss, you came from Hainan to ask me to change the map, right?" Changing the picture must be able to change, this is a tattoo parlor can do, not to mention anything else, I am also a master of a single round of traditional tattoos, boss, you take off your clothes and show me the tattoo. ”

Zhang Tianba inspected for a week, his face suddenly straightened, and he looked at the two black-clothed bodyguards behind him, "You go outside and guard, don't let other guests in." ”

He doesn't seem to want others to see the tattoos on his body, the big guy has the style of a big guy, anyway, there are often no customers in my store for a day, and I also went by him, it is rare to have a big business, so I led him directly to the tattoo room at the back of the store and closed the curtain.

He took off his clothes, revealing his muscular upper body and eight-pack abs.

is more than one meter and eight heads, there are a few hideous scars on his chest, and the dark cyan tattoo pattern lying on the hideous, a fierce domineering aura rushes in, I have seen too many such characters, this Zhang Tianba is definitely a bastard on the road, but his status is absolutely high.

But when I saw the tattoo lying on his body, I was stunned.

This is a strange and eerie hideous ghost picture, and even at a certain moment, as if I saw the blue and black pattern move, and the empty black eyes flashed a few times.

"Boss, what are you tattooing?"

"Dragon, this is a dragon!"

Zhang Tianba snorted and added, looking a little angry, and scolded angrily, "Are you kid deliberately looking for trouble?" I can't see this, isn't this a serious Chinese dragon with eight hundred children. ”

"Dragon, I know it's a dragon." I laughed wryly.

I could naturally tell that there was a dragon tattooed on it, but it was nondescript.

The dragon is China's totem, tattooed dragon, there is a particular attention here, not ordinary people can tattoo, it depends on the genus, mixed on the road, tattooed dragon is a normal thing, a lot of mixed bars on the road come to my tattoo shop tattoo dragon, because the dragon lord "descends", can help Xing fortune, subdue opponents, invincible.

But his dragon is different, nondescript, like a dragon and like a tiger.

This dragon is engraved with a king word on his forehead, colorful blue and black colors, a pair of sharp tiger teeth poking out from the dragon's mouth, tattooing the dragon out of the tiger's appearance, this is a taboo, it is a dragon and tiger fighting, no one dares to tattoo so much on the body, the average person dies the next day, in my eyes this heroic and domineering middle-aged man is already a dead man, but he is still alive, which means that his life is hard, especially hard that kind of life, even so not dead, but has been depressed.

It is clear that this is a rich eccentric.

Looking for death by himself, finding someone to tattoo himself for such a thing as death, I don't understand why he is tattooed like this, isn't it good to live well? I also feel that this Zhang Tianba is definitely a smart person, and even knows a lot about tattoos, so he shouldn't do it himself, but I'm afraid that there is something hidden.

At this time, Zhang Tianba looked at me up and down with his bare and strong arms, and seemed to be a little uneasy about my reaction, his eyes were a little cold, and he whispered, "Brother, what do you see?" ”

I smiled and said, "Brother, you dragon, it's a little special."