The origin of "graffiti"

Graffiti

1. Graffiti, as a word, is not a foreign word.

The word graffiti originated from Lu Tong in the Tang Dynasty who said that his son was naughty in scribbling. The allusion comes from "Yuchuanzi Collection." "Yun Tian Ding":

Lu Tong has a son named Tian Ding who likes to scribble and often makes Lu Tong's books dirty and messy. Lu Tong wrote a poem because of this: "Suddenly he turned over the ink on the desk and smeared the poems and books like a crow." He vividly described his son's naughty and his own helplessness.

Later, people derived the word "graffiti" from Lu Tong's poems, which has been passed down to this day.

2. Graffiti, as a performance art, was introduced from the West.

The most accepted theory is that graffiti originated in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the United States in 1966. At the beginning, the graffiti had no concept, just simply writing categories, etc. In addition to one's own nickname, these categories also included one's own house number and so on.

In the later period (1971-1974), more and more graffiti artists began to study fonts and range of effects. In the 1980s, graffiti artists painted graffiti on cars, trains and other surfaces. Walls were no longer the only medium. It has developed into the 21st century and gradually evolved into an artistic behavior with the color of the times. Many young people have combined graffiti with fashionable hip-hop elements and developed in a diversified way.