Talk:Tattooing in China

Sincere advice
After reading your article, I have a deeper understanding of Chinese tattoos, and we can have a chance to discuss it together. The fly in the ointment is that the Baidu Baike in the reference is a low-credit online Wikipedia, so I hope you can know related content in other sites SUNDAIYANG (talk) 10:29, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
 * What? — Llywelyn II   06:12, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Removed
Removed this section as ridiculously irrelevant and off topic, although it might be helpful in other articles with better sourcing:
 * Although tattoos were historically associated with negative punishment in China, in other historic world cultures, tattoos were symbols of social class and status. In ancient Egypt, tattoos were used to draw social status. During Victorian England, it was popular for women to wear red lipstick, similar to modern tattooed lips, eyebrows, and other permanent cosmetics.

— Llywelyn II   06:12, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

“Qingling, often known as ‘branding of the face’”
I found this because it was tagged as needing characters and am so far unable to find them. This sentence is not cited. There are "Qingling" words but they aren't related. After multiple sessions of online research I was unable to find any specific word that could match with the full description. After looking at all 90 Wiktionary entires for līng líng lǐng and lìng I could not find any that mean "face", "tattoo", or "brand" (although many don't have definitions so this is not hard evidence).

However, I did find two characters that may be quite close. 黥 qíng, a face tattoo meant as capital punishment, and 领 lǐng, neck. Given that a neck tattoo is often considered a face tattoo this is not a stretch, however 黥领 does not appear to be a word. It's possible that if the person who wrote this sentence was working off a source and neglected to cite it, and that original source may have mistaken a verb+noun combo for a single word.

Because this sentence is not cited, if nobody can find either a source, or a Chinese word that matches "Qingling" (from which sources can be found), I will rewrite this sentence with content from other sources (which is probably worthwhile anyways). If anyone is aware of this word or knows sources that use it, please let me know. SmallTestAcount (talk) 16:18, 16 October 2023 (UTC) SmallTestAcount (talk) 16:18, 16 October 2023 (UTC)