Ma Miaodan walked several dozen meters towards the museum entrance and glanced back at the crowd bowing around the statue. Suddenly, she said, "I understand now why Great Xia is known as a nation of etiquette."
Zhou Furu laughed, "Being a 'nation of etiquette' is not just about everyone bowing together."
Ma Miaodan asked curiously, "Then how should one understand a nation of etiquette?"
Zhou Furu thought for a moment and replied, "In essence, 'etiquette' is a broad social order, and 'protocol' is the external manifestation of that order, which can be rituals or rules and laws.
"From a deeper cultural perspective, the etiquette of the Great Xia is fundamentally a consensus accumulated over the long history of five thousand years.
"Throughout thousands of years, Great Xia has repeatedly fallen into danger but has also repeatedly risen again, because everyone holds this consensus, allowing them to unite at key moments."
Ma Miaodan let out an "oh," half-understanding.
Soon after.
