Concerning Taiwan natives in the latter part of the seventh century, the Dong Yi Zhuan (" Record of the Barbarians in the East "), a portion of the Sui Shu (History of the Sui Dynasty), records," Women tattoo their hands with ink in serpentine patterns. "
而在台灣，根據《隋書．東夷傳》的記載，在西元第七世紀後期，就有台灣土著「婦人以墨黥手，為蟲蛇之文」的記載。