Yi (Confucianism), the Confucian virtue roughly equivalent to "righteousness" or "justice"
His subjects ranged from Confucian virtues, to birds, to herblore, and also included hundreds of erotica prints.
These historians base their hypothesis on the assertion that the Confucian virtue of monarchical loyalty was unconditional and absolute in 19th-century Vietnam.
The Confucian virtue of restraint was embodied in the scholarly system central to China's bureaucracy and became encoded in its laws.
Yan justified his rule via Confucian political theories, and attempted to revive Confucian virtues as being universally accepted.
Many of the reforms that Yan attempted were undertaken with the intention of demonstrating that he was a junzi, the epitome of Confucian virtue.
In contrast, the Legalists had no time for Confucian virtue and advocated a system of strict laws and harsh punishments.
Chiang's father died when he was only eight years of age, and he wrote of his mother as the "embodiment of Confucian virtues".
To the Chinese, Kwan embodied Confucian virtues and patriarchal authority, and he is thought to have modelled his speeches on those of Sun Yat-sen.
On an individual level, Ge considered moral and ethical cultivation of the so-called Confucian virtues to be the basis of divine transcendence.