Loyalty (chu) is to devote entirely one's heart. For example, to entrust completly one's body and heart in the service of one's lord so that nothing [of one's self] remains at the bottom of one's heart. It is the [willingness] to serve one's lord even at the cost one's loss of property, family, or life...

Faith (shin) is to avoid self deciet and doing things in vain while [ignoring] truth [because of] having a desire for something.... Faith is similar to the principle of "earth" of the Five Elements....

When there is no Faith in Loyalty, or Virtue, or Chivalry, Loyalty is no more, Virtue is no more, and Chivalry is no more.

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