Self-improvement and morality-an explanation of Tsinghua University's school motto: two sentences from the Book of Changes: one sentence is "Heaven is strong, and a gentleman is self-improvement" (dry divination); One sentence is "the terrain is Kun, and a gentleman carries things with virtue" (Kun Gua). During the Republic of China, when Liang Qichao was teaching in Tsinghua University, he gave a lecture on "On Gentlemen" to the students in Tsinghua at that time. In his speech, he hoped that all the students in Tsinghua would inherit the traditional Chinese virtues, and quoted the words of "self-improvement" and "kindness and morality" in the Book of Changes to inspire the students in Tsinghua. Since then, Tsinghua people has written the words "strive for self-improvement, be virtuous and carry things" into the school rules of Tsinghua, and later gradually evolved into the school motto of Tsinghua.
"Heaven is strong, and a gentleman strives for self-improvement" and "The terrain is rich, and a gentleman carries things with virtue" means that the movement of heaven (that is, nature) is strong and healthy. Accordingly, a gentleman should behave like heaven, strive for self-improvement, be resolute and resolute, and strive for strength with anger, and never stop; The momentum of the earth is thick and smooth, and a gentleman should add virtue and accommodate everything. A gentleman should run like Tianyu, and be indomitable even if he is drifting from place to place; If you are a gentleman, the measurement of receiving objects should be like the earth, and nothing can't be carried.