How To Personalize Your Chinese Tattoos Designs

The original motive of Body Tattooing Some sources suggest that the origin of Chinese tattoos came from ancient Chinese people's admiration of the wild animals? beauty and power, such as their colorful skins and body shape. Although human beings thought themselves "the king of every creature on the planet", they deeply appreciated some wild animals' strength and instinctive talent. For example, people living in the jungle were impressed by the leopard's speed, the tiger's mighty power, or Snake's sagacity. This kind of appreciation encouraged some ancient Chinese people to puncture themselves with decorative patterns or colors to enhance their own bodily aesthetic values.

To find a highly personalized Chinese tattoo design isn't an easy job Many people are wondering that out of 2000 of the most common Chinese symbols, which one could be used to for their tattoo designs, and which one would surely raise their self-esteem and show their true personality? Many people use Chinese love symbols, dragon symbols as their tattoo designs. No doubt, these symbols are hot and popular, but too many people were using them, you might have to make a change to find other stylish ones. Choose a unique one can differentiate your personality from others. For example, you can consider to choose some Chinese sayings for your tattoo design, such as "天长地久", "海枯石烂" ... The symbol "天" means "sky", "长" means "long", "地" means "earth" and "久" means "old". Literally, the saying of "天长地久" means "enduring as the universe" and actually it is used to symbolize everlasting love or friendship. So choosing "Love sayings" to replace a single "love symbol" is a good idea, isn't it?

Choosing Chinese tattoos from various calligraphic writing styles Chinese symbols have many different calligraphic styles, you can choose the one, which you think can be the best to show your personality. Here Let's take Chinese symbol for "sea" as an example. The Chinese symbol "Sea" is written as "海". And you can see how many calligraphic styles for a single symbol "海 (sea)" could be.

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