Ma Pan's tattoo is Kirin. Besides being a Miao, he is also a hunter.
It is mentioned in the novel "Notes on Grave Robbery" that there is a custom where Ma Pan is located. Tattoos are used to prevent people from getting sick. A special medicine is boiled into liquid and then used to tattoo children. As long as the person with this tattoo is sick, the tattoo will change.
Later, a Feng Shui gentleman came here, and he changed the tattoo of the local people into Kirin. Therefore, Ma Pan also has Kirin tattoos.
Extended data:
The Zhang family is the most special family that runs through the series of tomb-robbing notes novels. They strictly followed the policy of intermarriage, and obtained the purest bloodline at all costs, among which the biggest sacrifice was each patriarch of the Zhang family.
As the purest member of the Zhang family, he has a tattoo of a unicorn. The novel describes being pierced by a paint special for Miao medicine, and he will appear when he is hot or excited. He once used this tattoo to scare Mrs. Huo, who was in charge of the Huo family at that time.