Origin of Piercing Jewelry

Origin of piercing jewelry:

Body Piercing is an alternative human performance art that emerged in the United Kingdom in the middle of the last century. In the early days, it mainly drew on and integrated traditional ear piercing, Indian nose piercing, African bone nose piercing and Indian feather forehead piercing and other tribal cultures. Body piercing can be used to pierce and wear accessories in the ears, nose, mouth, lips, breasts, navel and other places.

      In 1991, a mummy that had been frozen for thousands of years was discovered in an Austrian glacier. Scientists determined that it was more than 5,000 years old. The mummy's ears were pierced. Legend has it that the origin of ear piercing may be related to "magic". Many primitive tribes believed that the devil would enter the human body through the ears, and believed that metal was an effective guard against devils and ghosts. This is why piercing and wearing metal jewelry came into being.

The art of body piercing became popular around the world due to the "Punk Wave" in the UK in the 1970s and the "Hip" movement in the United States at the same time. Hippies and punks at that time liked to wear long hair, Indian-style turbans, jeans, Indian shirts, and handmade neck ornaments or metal jewelry. Movement advocates put forward anti-art, anti-rational, anti-logic, anti-totalitarian culture, and anti-capitalism slogans to express the dissatisfaction of young people from the working class with society and their protest against reality. They have no suggestions, only destruction; they try to fully demonstrate their rebelliousness by denying, destroying and destroying all values. In addition to rock music, tattoos and graffiti, body piercing became another major way for young people to express their individuality.