This is how I got the first of my tattoos and piercings. I had always been interested in body art from a very early age, and when I got to about 14 I started going through that rebellious teenage phase. A good friend of mine who was a few years older than me and who [...]
Hey everyone, So I am going for my first Tattoo soon, And I had a few questions.. First of all. I was looking around on all sorts of Tattoo sites trying to find one that I liked, But none of them really spoke to me and I want to get a custom one done. I [...]
Tattoo is called “Wen Shen” or “Ci Shen” in Chinese. The term means literally “puncture the body”.
tattoo has been known and practised in China for many years. But it was never considered to be something artistic, desirable, or even acceptable. A commonly held notion is that one’s body is a precious gift from the parent [...]
Yeah hot women with hot tattoos are just super hot! I actually tried to go to the convention on sunday with a friend, because I want to get a chinese dragon design done, but it was closed. On the website the schedule said it was open until 5pm each day, and we went at 2pm [...]
As China has taken its cultural cues from the West in recent years, and has experienced increased exposure to rock, Hip Hop music and NBA players (nearly half of whom are tatted), the tattoo has become an accessory that defines the modern, rebellious nature of today’s Chinese youth culture. More and more Chinese youth, for [...]
A girl shows her tattoos during the Tattoo Show Convention China 2007 in Beijing June 16, 2007.
During the Cultural Revolution, Mao banned tattoo art on the grounds that it signaled impurity and ruffianism, and even today members of the Chinese army are forbidden to have tattoos. However, tattoos have figured into the cultures of several of China’s ethnic minorities, most notably the Drung and Dai minorities. During Imperial times, tattoos were [...]
Like any good convention, suppliers were on hands hawking the latest in tattoo products. A supplier booth at the Beijing tattoo shows costs 1,500 USD, a substantial fee for mainland China’s tattoo merchants. Seventy-six suppliers from China, Indonesia, France, Germany and England rented booths for the occasion.
According to the convention’s official site, the aim of [...]
Though tattoos in China still draw scorn from Chinese elders and double-takes from straight-laced youth, this weekend China’s tattoo enthusiasts gathered in Beijing for China’s Tattoo Show Convention 2007. Until recently, tattoos in China were reserved for those with ties to organized crime, a prison record or membership to one of China’s tribal minorities for [...]
A man shows the designs on his face during the Tattoo Show Convention China 2007 in Beijing June 16, 2007.
We will hold the 2010 china tattoo convention like a party, because the convention now is not just a place for skill learning, we prefer to provide a plat for those tattoo aritists to communicating. Our [...]
