"Seeking truth from facts" has not been explicitly used as the school motto since its birth, but it has always been the unchanging spiritual characteristic of the school from Northern Shaanxi Public School to North China United University, North University, North China University and now China Renmin University.

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The word "seeking truth from facts" comes from Hanshu Liu De, which says that Liu De is "learning from the past and seeking truth from facts".

Later, Yan Shigu, a scholar in the Tang Dynasty, interpreted the word "seeking truth from facts" as "seeking truth from everything", that is, it was extended to a pragmatic and truth-seeking style of study worth advocating.

Mao Zedong once said in "Transforming their Learning": "The actual thing is an objective thing," yes "is the internal connection of objective things, that is, regularity, and" seeking "is for everyone to study."

1June 99215th, on the eve of the 55th anniversary of China Renmin university, "seeking truth from facts" was officially confirmed as the school motto.

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