In China, people with tattoos and piercings are widely frowned upon and viewed as social outcasts.
Which is weird, because here in the United States, people are constantly getting tattooed with Chinese characters. (Even when they don’t know what they mean.)
I’m pretty sure most of the Chinese character tattoos that you see all mean something along the lines of “broccoli with beef” or “mushroom chicken soup.”
Maybe some people just really like broccoli with beef or mushroom chicken soup, and they want to proclaim that to the world…