The Origin of "Hattoku/The Eight Virtue".
One of the key phrases in Nansou Satomi Hakkenden is "Hattoku (八徳) /The Eight Virtue". In other words, ・仁( Jin/benevolent ) ・義( Gi/justice ) ・礼( Rei/courtesy ) ・智( Chi/wisdom ) ・忠( Chuu/loyalty ) ・信( Shin/faith ) ・孝( Kou/filial piety ) ・悌( Tei/brotherhood ) Of course, these virtues have been derived Confucian, but the history is shorter term comparively. However, in Edo period of Japan, they were common in society, and bad people (particularly, people buying women) had been called as "Bouhachi (忘八) /people forgetting 'Hattoku'". I wanted to know about origin of Hattoku, so I consulted Chat GPT again. According to it, at first, there were five virtues by Mencius and Dong Zhongshu below: " 仁 ", " 義 ", " 礼 ", " 智 " and " 信 " They had been called as "Gojo (五常) /Five Constant Virtue". After long time, it was said early confucian texts, " 忠 ", ...