Tattooing has been a massive part of Chinese culture for thousands of years stemming all the way back to early , before Christ. The southern song dynasty (960-1279) was most popular for tattoos as monks in this time encouraged the use of different types of art. This went down to the emperor and accepted the way these people where living. This then was accepted into the great city's. unfortanaly good things come to a end and tattooing was banned. The only tattoos around after this dynasty was the mark of criminals so they can be identified. Which this also didn't help the ban as tattooing was still practised with monks but was passed down to criminals, this lead to tattoos going underground and causing gang symbols for criminals. Eventually the ban was lifted but its only been in recent years that tattooing has become more acceptable. Of course tattooing came from a tribe, this type of tattooing was named after each tribe. For example Dia tattoos was one. But all of these had symbolic or a belief in each design.
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