The name was translated by Google, and the bull's head is not the same as the horse's mouth. According to netizens, the signboard means that this is an erotic massage brothel. Combined with the opium den that Sherlock Holmes himself said in the movie, it is a comprehensive entertainment venue for pornography, gambling and drugs.
The era of Mermes' story is the second half of the 19th century. Britain had just turned China into a semi-colony and an opium sales market through two Opium Wars. Obviously, the British came to China to sell opium to the Chinese. How come when the movie is over, it becomes a Chinese who travels all the way to London, England to sell opium to the British? It is even more impossible to open a brothel. It is impossible for the Chinese to operate the pornography, gambling and drug industry in London, England in the 19th century. If I remember correctly, during the Opium War, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty did not know where Britain was!
Said the Chinese went to England to sell opium. This is like saying that the American slave trade was the black trader who sold European whites as slaves to the Americas, the Holocaust of World War II was the slaughter of Nazi Germans by Jews, and the Anti-Japanese War was that China went to Japan to invade Japan. The identities of the murderers and victims are bizarre. Swapped, this is a serious lie that distorts right and wrong, reverses black and white, and tampers with history!
Why is there such a plot in British movies? I professionally consulted the book "The Opium War" written by British sinologist JULIA LOVELL. According to the introduction of this book, after the United Kingdom forced China to carry out the opium trade, which led to addicts everywhere in China, it in turn used cultural propaganda to create a Chinese self-confidence. Smoking opium is an ugly image of the source of opium. This kind of propaganda that the thief shouts to catch the thief has had a far-reaching impact in the West. For nearly a hundred years, the Chinese have become synonymous with addicts and ugliness. This is also described in the novel "Two Horses" written by Mr. Lao She, in which Mr. Ma suffered discrimination in Europe.
The Opium War is the source of China's suffering in modern times, and every one of us Chinese will remember that period of suffering in our hearts. We will not hate the British, but the British cannot distort history and turn black and white. This is intolerable to the Chinese people!
It is now the 21st century, and China is no longer the poor and weak country of the past. The UK's ugly portrayal of the Chinese people based on fiction and lies is long overdue. Although this plot is a small detail in the whole "Sherlock", I believe that the film's producers did not intend to vilify and frame the Chinese. But this just proves that, for them, the lie that has lasted for a hundred years is the real China in their minds.
I also have someone who can tell these British producers that the Chinese they describe, the image they have in their minds about the Chinese selling opium is wrong! Ask them to read more history books!
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