"To cultivate the righteousness of heaven and earth and the laws of ancient and modern times" means to cultivate the noble spirit of heaven and earth and imitate the sages with perfect morality in ancient and modern times. 1923 1 month, Chiang Kai-shek asked Dr. Sun Yat-sen to write a calligraphy couplet, which was written by Dr. Sun Yat-sen personally, that is, "to cultivate the meaning of heaven and earth and the law of ancient and modern times". This Mo Bao is now preserved in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taiwan Province Province.
Its origin can be traced back to Mencius Gongsun Chou: "I am good at nurturing my noble spirit", and its connotation was further expanded by Wen Tianxiang's reference to Song Zhengqi in the Song Dynasty: "An noble spirit is the meaning of heaven and earth" and "the righteousness of heaven and earth, the ambiguity of miscellaneous people". Below is the Yuehe River, and above is the sun star. In people's words, it is awe-inspiring and unstoppable ... ".
"Cultivating the meaning of heaven and earth and connecting the ancient and modern laws" is the century-old motto of Suzhou University. Its predecessor was Mr. Yang Yongqing, the first president of China of Soochow University in the 1920s, and it has been in use ever since. It embodies the concept of running a school for a hundred years and has also become the unremitting spiritual pursuit of generations of Soviet adults.
Cultivate the indomitable integrity between heaven and earth, and learn from the perfect morality of ancient and modern times. The motto of Suzhou University contains the tolerance of "looking up at the past and overlooking the present", and also permeates "observing astronomy and observing time changes; Like Song Zhengqi, the traditional cultural connotation of "changing the world by looking at people" draws people into a supreme realm.
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In China's traditional cultural thought, he paid attention to the relationship between man and nature, and emphasized "the unity of man and nature" and "the harmony between man and nature at the right time". The concept of "harmony between man and nature" was first expounded by Zhuangzi, and then developed into a philosophical system of harmony between man and nature by Dong Zhongshu, a thinker and yin and yang scientist in Han Dynasty, and thus constructed the main body of China traditional culture.
"Improving the meaning of heaven and earth and perfecting the law of ancient and modern times" gives people a momentum of "looking up at the ancient and overlooking the present", which makes people feel awe of heaven and earth (nature) and ancient and modern (history). It is this awe that keeps the relationship between man and nature in balance.
Although "the meaning of cultivating heaven and earth" is an inherent meaning of cultivating people, it is a harmonious meaning and the unity of heaven and man. The so-called "harmony between man and nature" is to truly conform to the laws of nature and not violate nature. Everything in heaven and earth is the son of nature, has a healthy heart and cares for all the natural things that live together. The connotation of the healthy spirit of heaven and earth has been personalized here.
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