Beiyang University Hall is the first university in China's modern history, which is now Tianjin University. It was born in an unusual period in the history of China 1895. The fiasco of Sino-Japanese War in 1894-1895 declared the bankruptcy of Westernization Movement. The bourgeois reformists once demanded reform and political reform.
cultural tradition
school motto
The motto of Tianjin University is "seeking truth from facts", which was advocated by Zhao Tianlin, the former president and famous jurist of Beiyang University in the early days of its establishment. During his tenure as president (19 14- 1920), Zhao Tianlin summed up the experience of running Beiyang University and summed up the word "seeking truth from facts" to teach students, which became the school motto.
The word "seeking truth from facts" comes from Liu Dechuan in Wang Xian between Han Shuhe, in which Liu De is said to be "open-minded and eager to learn, seeking truth from facts".