你相信吗?一个人感情理念的表达并非一定要写在纸上。可能你的第一个反应是:当然,计算机正在同纸张展开一场革命。可是我所指的也并非是用手指机械地敲入字符。时下,古老的传统的文身文化已演变成今天最酷的时尚和前卫里最抢眼的亮点。 在中科院语言研究所编写的《现代汉语词典》里,文身被释为“在人体上绘成或刺成带颜色的花纹或图形”。从文明人的立场看,这种有计划地刺伤皮肤以至使之发炎、变色的原始艺术和原始巫术的混合体,展现了人类精神现象学和人类情神史中的复杂内涵。 很显然,即便是那些显得毫无生活信念,完全以娱乐为目的的现代文身者,也还是通过文身活动来体现一种强烈的信念,尽管有时我们可以把这种信念称为“追求感官刺激”。否则,我们很难设想一个人忍受巨大的痛苦换取文身之美的动力是什么。可能会有人为了单纯的自虐而文身可能会有人为了“好玩”而文身,这些均可统归为玩世不恭,但你却不能否认这也是一种生活信念。作为一种直接铭刻在身体上的符号,文身沟通了人的灵与肉。 Do you believe it? The expression of a person’s emotional ideas is not necessarily written on paper. Perhaps your first reaction is: Of course, computers are beginning a revolution with paper. But I’m not referring to the mechanical typing of characters with my fingers. Nowadays, the ancient, traditional tattoo culture has evolved into the most eye-catching spot in today’s coolest fashion and avant-garde. In the Dictionary of Modern Chinese, written by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Language, the tattoo is released as “painted or stained in color with patterns or figures on the human body.” From the standpoint of a civilized person, this mixture of primitive art and primitive witchcraft systematically stabbing the skin to make it inflamed and discolored reveals the complex connotations in the history of human spiritual phenomenology and human sentiment. Obviously, even those modern tattoos who appear to have no living faith and who are completely entertained are still exerting a strong belief through tattooing, though sometimes we may call this belief “the pursuit of sensual stimulation” . Otherwise, it is hard to imagine what motivates a person to endure great pain in exchange for the beauty of tattoos. There may be tattoos for tattoos that can be tattooed simply for self-torture, which can be classified as cynical, but you can not deny that it is a living belief. As a symbol directly engraved on the body, tattoos communicate the human spirit and flesh.