This is an era full of invisible shackles and vivid desires. The territory of the Ming Empire was vast on paper, and its laws and regulations were woven into a fine and tough network, covering every inch of the air from the eaves of the Forbidden City to the fields. Here, everything is inferior, only reading is high, and the ultimate form of reading is the imperial examination ceremony that happens every three years and affects the fate of countless people. Those who are named on the gold list will leap over the dragon gate and bring glory to their ancestors; those who are not named in the sun may live in poverty for the rest of their lives and become a footnote to the sighs of the neighbors after dinner. Society operates slowly under the sequence of "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce". Etiquette is like an invisible wall that separates the superior and the inferior, shaping people's words and deeds.
