- In China, more and more people ask for laser engraving on the back of parrot fish, flowers or ideograms.
- Some vendors are hiding that they are not the ones who made the fish tattoo.
- Your price compared to other species, 40 yuan (6 U.S. dollars or 4.3 euros), in increased sales.
- also superstition, which identifies the fish with prosperity.
The tattoo fashion in China is primed with the defenseless parrot fish, a pet cheap price increases which the laser engraving in his back flowers or Chinese characters for fortune, a technique cruel as the animal lovers.
Pekingese on the market of flowers and animals Laitai, two of the twenty positions of animals sold fish tattooed with flowers, a technique to attract superstitious buyers also are attracted by displaying on their backs the Chinese ideograms "Love", "happiness", "fortune" or "longevity."
The business owner says they are not those who get tattoos, but that's imported from Taiwan and decorated but would not elaborate on the controversial issue. However, the owner of a nearby store, Ruili Wang says that it is a cruelty that goes against all ethics: "I do not sell these fish. These tattoos are made with a laser, is very cruel to hurt the fish" said Efe inside your pet store, "Golden Fish Culture quintessence of China."
Wang, fish "are living beings, like humans, and tattooed the back is" a lack of respect towards life, also takes to earn more money ", since this species is very cheap.
However, until the owner recognizes that there are customers out of curiosity buy these fish prints with flowers, hearts or phrases such as good luck, Gongxian Facai ("Happy New Year") to get more attention at the time of sale. For example, a copy of parrot fish tattooed with a flower can cost about 40 yuan (6 U.S. dollars or 4.3 euros), well above its value, compared to 170 ($ 25.8) which costs a couple of fish gold, symbol of good luck or marriage in China.
fish suffer pain and stress for several days until it heals tatuajeLos such vendors say the fish tattoo fashion started in Taiwan and was imported to China a few years ago, where he became popular as a result of a belief identifying the fish to prosperity, because its pronunciation is similar in Chinese, and fertility, the large number of offspring they have.
Wang's shop is full of so-called 'goldfish' or 'jin yu' (Carassius auratus), a colorful family of domesticated carp began in China during the Jin Dynasty (265-420). "We just trading with beautiful fish," says Wang, "In the same way they bring us joy, we also try these animals are happy," she adds.
The Chinese buy fish for several reasons, principally as a pet, but also for the 'Feng Shui' or geomancy China, an aesthetic discipline that plays with the five elements recommended by canals and ponds placed in certain locations to attract good fortune. In addition, popular belief says that if the pond or tank is filled with six goldfish and one black the water element will be stronger, a practice more common in northern China, which is much drier compared to the south.
"In the old courtyards of Beijing's 'siheyuan', always had a large vase with goldfish that our grandparents caring. Many customers want to preserve that memory and buy these," said the saleswoman Wang Another reason is that the 'jin yu' is one of eight Buddhist auspicious objects ("Ashta Mangala" in Sanskrit), along with an empty throne, a swastika, the footprints of Buddha, a begging bowl, the Tibetan endless knot, a vase with jewels and the Cup of the Treasury.
A pedigree that certainly lacks the underdog parrotfish, that tattoo is "full of ink stick needles in their skin is very sensitive, so that an inflammatory response to the ink and the trauma of the needle, causing pain for several days until it heals, "he told Efe Kati Loeffler, expert of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) in China.
In a country where pets are growing in a parallel to its development, it is necessary to know that "fish are not pets like dogs or cats, which can be played without problem. In fact, suffer great stress when they are tattooed," he concluded.
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