The piercing is an English word, Hungarian name is body piercing. (the original meaning of the word is „penetration”, so in the strict sense, piercing is the hole in which the jewel is placed.)
Body piercing is not an invention of the modern age, it can be found in several ancient cultures, especially in primitive peoples. The first jewelery was made from vegetable and animal raw materials, followed by brass and precious metal. Natural, ready-to-find ingredients (snails, shells, etc.) were made with chisels and scratches.
Today, jewelery is made of tissue-friendly medical metal, titanium, or colored niobium. They are designed to ensure that the underside of the jewelery is of the same thickness, so that it fits better into the body.
The wearing of piercing can be justified by different principles for people, such as religious, cultural, or widespread in the Western world: simply body decorations.
The ancient jewelery was not only a decorative feature, but also expressed the individual’s rank, role, or belonging to a community.
The piercing can be found in Asian, African and Australian peoples; North and South American Indians. For example, women in the lower part of their kayak-pierced earlobe, Sarawak, belonging to the Kayan-Kenyan group of people in Malaysia; North and South American Indians include a pleated bottom and sometimes upper lip-shaped wooden wedge; Many women with black skin are wearing silver, ebony, or bamboo stick in their nose.
In Egypt, the queens were the privilege of queens, and in ancient Rome, masculinity was symbolized by the hoop pierced by the nipple. The elegance of the upper class ladies was strengthened by the adjective, XX. Until the beginning of the 20th century, earrings were common among craftsmen.
Spread of piercing [edit]
In Ethiopia, the lower lips of women are pierced in their little girls, and then a little twig is put on it, followed by longer pieces until marriage, when their lips are already expanding.
Another type of piercing is the ear piercing used in the Mali peul tribe, where the earcup was decorated with tiny silver rings along the entire arch, or with huge gold pendants. The addicts were the symbols of seduction and wealth.
While the ears, nose and mouthpieces were mostly used earlier, there is not much body in the place where a berry or ring could not be „mounted”. More and more fashionable, piercing piercing, implanted under the skin, protruding after wound healing.
Source: Wikipedia
