Tattoo In The Filipino Culture

Tattooing has been a great part of the Filipino culture during the sixteenth century. These tattoos are applied to men that fit their courage during a war and as a symbol for valor. Unlike the past reasons of engraving this tattoos to the human body, the today’s approach is far different. Tattoos served as an initiation to manhood and although it was painful enough to test true bravery, some dared to add “labong” scars on their arms with burning moxa, pellets of wooly fibers used in medical cautery. Tattooing was done by tracing the designs on the body with an ink made from soot and prick them into the skin using short needles. The first tattoos are applied beginning from the ankles and ending at the waist. Chest tattoos came after further action in warfare. The boldest and the strongest warriors are restricted from facial tattoos. Looking to the primary reasons of tattooing before, the cases nowadays seems not to impose the same principle but only a matter of showing capabilities; not bravery nor

However, their claim of incivility to the country reveals a falsity, somehow, due to the different aspects being entangled by their literature, agriculture, architecture, industry and trade. Specifically, the agriculture in Bikolandia depicts the knowledge of the Filipinos in farming. They have grown crops on hillside swiddens and grew rice under irrigation. The process involving irrigation, however, became undemand to most people due to the inconsistent water flow from rio grandes. Later on, a “masarawat”, who was a farmer, invented several techniques to increase production over any time. The method of transplantation was widely used where in the seedlings are either acquired through “sabod” (sowing) or soaking into a “balanhig” (wet leaves) until they