"Tian Xingjian, the gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement; The terrain is rich, and the gentleman carries things with morality ",which means that the sports in heaven are strong and healthy." Accordingly, a gentleman should do things like heaven, strive for self-improvement, be firm and never stop; The potential of the earth is thick and slippery, and the gentleman is tolerant. This sentence comes from Xiang Zhuan written by Confucius for Zhouyi. Elephant communication can be divided into baby elephants and baby elephants. The elephant explains the meaning of hexagrams, and the elephant explains six characters. This sentence comes from the "image" of Gan Kun's two hexagrams.
(dry divination) is like saying: Tian Xingjian, the gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement; (Kun Gua) Meet: The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with kindness. The last sentence, "Heaven is healthy, and gentlemen are constantly striving for self-improvement", is more widely circulated. But for two thousand years, many people know and few people can understand. However, there are still different explanations in academic circles, and there seems to be no recognized correct explanation.
A popular explanation (reference): Heaven works well, and a gentleman should follow the example of Heaven and strive for self-improvement; The situation of the land is similar to that of Kun. A gentleman should take the land as an example and put morality first. Note: Xiang Kun, which means "Shuncheng".
19 14 years, Liang Qichao went to Tsinghua University, where he gave a lecture on "On Gentlemen" to Tsinghua students at that time. In his speech, he hoped that all Tsinghua students would inherit Chinese traditional virtues, and quoted the words of "self-improvement" and "respect for morality" in the Book of Changes to inspire Tsinghua students. From then on, Tsinghua people wrote the words "self-improvement, kindness and morality" into the school rules of Tsinghua, and later gradually evolved into the school motto of Tsinghua.