Sand and Dust Department Store-Honey·Flower Pattern·Telephone T-shirt
Hong Kong was founded in 1842. In 1851, a foreign prostitute placed a small advertisement in the Deutsche Herald: "At Mrs. Langda's, there is a small amount of small jars of the best honey for sale, in addition to felt wine, brandy, cherry wine... Location: X Floor, No. X, Renwick Street, Victoria City." I believe everyone is familiar with honey. Honey has another meaning in English. The advertisement actually refers to "the best honey" - high-class foreign prostitutes are waiting for their drivers in the Flower Street. It is said that foreigners have to send flowers to win favor when hiring prostitutes, so the flower stalls gathered on the street gave rise to the Chinese name of Flower Street. Those who understand will bring newspapers and flowers to the door quickly.
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As business and trade gradually prospered, the first telephone company was established in Hong Kong in 1881, and gradually published advertisements in newspapers to recruit people to install telephones. The word "telephone" is relatively unfamiliar to the public (some say that "telephone" is translated through Shanghainese accent; others say that until the second half of the 20th century, the "Tongsheng" published in Hong Kong, which included the "Hua Ying Tongyu" which used Cantonese phonetic notation to learn English, also recorded the word "telephone". Another name that is more well-known is "telephone" which was introduced from Japan. Since the 1900s, the trend of Hong Kong's erotic industry has spread from Shuikengkou to the big restaurants and dance halls in Stone. There are "Western prostitutes" (foreign prostitutes), so there are naturally "Touti Zhengcai". There are also many famous prostitutes who are popular in Hong Kong. In ancient times, prostitutes in brothels were good at singing and dancing. The famous prostitutes in Tangxi behaved decently and were not lewd. Guessing, drinking, singing and beauty were just standard items. From the first charge of "one dollar" (originating from the fact that guests in Tangxi taverns spent one dollar to write a "flower note" to call a prostitute, pour wine, sit with her or sing a song), the young men had entered the time of burning money. In those days, many "filial sons" spent all their money to win the smile of their beauties. They not only burned silver paper to cook green bean paste, gave flower cards made of banknotes, but also installed the trendy telephone in their rooms, which was only available to the upper class officials at that time, just to make the beauty fall in love with them in various ways. It is said that poverty limits imagination. If we had not seen Ruhua and Twelve Young Masters in "Rouge", it would be difficult for poor people like us to imagine this kind of Gatsby-style drunken life.
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Later, telephones became more and more popular, but Tong Sai declined for various reasons. In the early 1930s, the British government enacted legislation to ban prostitution, which spread to the colony of Hong Kong. Unfortunately, food and sex are human nature. After the complete ban on prostitution in 1935, the borderline erotic transaction method of looking for "tour guides" became popular, and the tour guide agency became a "liver-soothing garden" for the dog men (the word "soothing" was originally a term in traditional Chinese medicine, and in Cantonese it is extended to mean experiencing a good thing that makes people feel happy). The hotel introduced the guests to the telephone, and then they just needed to dial a wheel (in Cantonese, it means to make a phone call. The front of the old telephone has a rotating disk with small holes numbered 1 to 9 and 0. Insert your fingers into the small holes corresponding to the phone numbers one by one and dial clockwise to make a call. In Cantonese, "disc" is commonly known as "wheel"), and the tour guide will come upon call. Things are unpredictable. The erotic industry has gone underground, but it has become involved with the telephone in this way. The world of red dust and various aspects of the world are intertwined to show the changes in Hong Kong's romance over the past century.
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This historical (dream) that actually happened was incorporated into our imagination and turned into a pattern. In the former Hong Kong's extravagant life, the telephone played an unusual role. Therefore, we used the prototype of a telephone booth in the Hong Kong Lai Yuen Amusement Park, where erotic dance performances were held, to create Honey·Flower Sticker·Telephone.
Hong Kong was founded in 1842. In 1851, a foreign prostitute placed a small advertisement in the Deutsche Herald: "At Mrs. Langda's, there is a small amount of small jars of the best honey for sale, in addition to felt wine, brandy, cherry wine... Location: X Floor, No. X, Renwick Street, Victoria City." I believe everyone is familiar with honey. Honey has another meaning in English. The advertisement actually refers to "the best honey" - high-class foreign prostitutes are waiting for their drivers in the Flower Street. It is said that foreigners have to send flowers to win favor when hiring prostitutes, so the flower stalls gathered on the street gave rise to the Chinese name of Flower Street. Those who understand will bring newspapers and flowers to the door quickly.
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As business and trade gradually prospered, the first telephone company was established in Hong Kong in 1881, and gradually published advertisements in newspapers to recruit people to install telephones. The word "telephone" is relatively unfamiliar to the public (some say that "telephone" is translated through Shanghainese accent; others say that until the second half of the 20th century, the "Tongsheng" published in Hong Kong, which included the "Hua Ying Tongyu" which used Cantonese phonetic notation to learn English, also recorded the word "telephone". Another name that is more well-known is "telephone" which was introduced from Japan. Since the 1900s, the trend of Hong Kong's erotic industry has spread from Shuikengkou to the big restaurants and dance halls in Stone. There are "Western prostitutes" (foreign prostitutes), so there are naturally "Touti Zhengcai". There are also many famous prostitutes who are popular in Hong Kong. In ancient times, prostitutes in brothels were good at singing and dancing. The famous prostitutes in Tangxi behaved decently and were not lewd. Guessing, drinking, singing and beauty were just standard items. From the first charge of "one dollar" (originating from the fact that guests in Tangxi taverns spent one dollar to write a "flower note" to call a prostitute, pour wine, sit with her or sing a song), the young men had entered the time of burning money. In those days, many "filial sons" spent all their money to win the smile of their beauties. They not only burned silver paper to cook green bean paste, gave flower cards made of banknotes, but also installed the trendy telephone in their rooms, which was only available to the upper class officials at that time, just to make the beauty fall in love with them in various ways. It is said that poverty limits imagination. If we had not seen Ruhua and Twelve Young Masters in "Rouge", it would be difficult for poor people like us to imagine this kind of Gatsby-style drunken life.
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Later, telephones became more and more popular, but Tong Sai declined for various reasons. In the early 1930s, the British government enacted legislation to ban prostitution, which spread to the colony of Hong Kong. Unfortunately, food and sex are human nature. After the complete ban on prostitution in 1935, the borderline erotic transaction method of looking for "tour guides" became popular, and the tour guide agency became a "liver-soothing garden" for the dog men (the word "soothing" was originally a term in traditional Chinese medicine, and in Cantonese it is extended to mean experiencing a good thing that makes people feel happy). The hotel introduced the guests to the telephone, and then they just needed to dial a wheel (in Cantonese, it means to make a phone call. The front of the old telephone has a rotating disk with small holes numbered 1 to 9 and 0. Insert your fingers into the small holes corresponding to the phone numbers one by one and dial clockwise to make a call. In Cantonese, "disc" is commonly known as "wheel"), and the tour guide will come upon call. Things are unpredictable. The erotic industry has gone underground, but it has become involved with the telephone in this way. The world of red dust and various aspects of the world are intertwined to show the changes in Hong Kong's romance over the past century.
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This historical (dream) that actually happened was incorporated into our imagination and turned into a pattern. In the former Hong Kong's extravagant life, the telephone played an unusual role. Therefore, we used the prototype of a telephone booth in the Hong Kong Lai Yuen Amusement Park, where erotic dance performances were held, to create Honey·Flower Sticker·Telephone.