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Chinese Tiger Tattoo
In Chinese traditional culture, tiger is regarded as the King of forests. As the super leader of animal kingdoms, the image of tiger has been well respected.
Sometimes, in Chinese classic literatures, the symbol of tiger was also described as a threatening sign, for example the Chinese words "虎口" (hoo kou), literally means the mouth of Tiger, but actually "the mouth of tiger" means "dangerous zone".
 In Chinese tradition, "tiger" means "vigorous" and "energetic" and the tiger symbols was used to symbolize "the brave" or "the powerful". People normally praised a general or a hero "as brave as a tiger".
Sometimes the "tiger" character is also used to describe a man with dauntless drive, who is full of drive and guts, so Chinese tiger tattoo design became many young people, especially boys' favorites. Young men liked to use their Chinese tattoo tiger to show that they have plenty of dash ...
Recently the "Chinese tattoo tiger" became more and more popular in the West. But do you know, there are a number of different Chinese written scripts for the "Chinese tattoo tiger". These written scripts represent different calligraphic writing styles, which have been formed in the past thousands of years. The most famous scripts are such as "the standard scripts", "the clerical scripts" ...We have listed some of these examples below for you to have a browse ...
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