Tsinghua people is familiar with these slogans, such as "Give bread with a shotgun", "Be famous and specialized", "Graduation design with a real knife and a real gun", "Let's advance together at our own pace" and "Work for the health of the motherland for 50 years". His advocate and practitioner is Comrade Jiang Nanxiang, President of Tsinghua University.

Jiang Nanxiang has always attached importance to the study of students' basic theories and knowledge, emphasizing the training of students' basic skills and the cultivation of their ability to solve practical problems. At the beginning of students' enrollment, Jiang Nanxiang earnestly warned students that as an engineering university, the students trained by Tsinghua "can learn and use book knowledge, use their brains and hands, be good at creating new experiences in practice, be masters of theoretical weapons, and not be slaves of books".

Three generations of gentlemen. Chairman Jiang Nanxiang's educational philosophy has deeply influenced generations of Tsinghua students. Students often think of the old headmaster's words: "when you enter the university, you must learn knowledge and improve your ability." Just like a person walking through a primeval forest, it is important not only to give him a bag of dry food, but also to give him a shotgun, because the dry food has been eaten up and there will be no more; With a shotgun, you can keep getting new food. "