Cultural Traditions of Southwest University

The University Emblem The university emblem is round in shape with blue characters on a white background. The main design is a large bell made up of the four characters Xi, Nan, Da and Xue in small seal script. Below the bell is the Arabic numeral "1906", which represents the earliest source of Southwest University, the Chuan Dong Normal College founded in 1906. At the lower end of the circle is the English text of Southwest University.

The connotation of the bell-shaped emblem is that the bell is usually placed in a high place and the sound is loud, deafening, thought-provoking and can be transmitted thousands of miles away. The image of the bell has a very high status in Chinese traditional culture, and it is called "Yellow Bell and Big Lue", which symbolizes the status of Southwest University in China's education sector, and also alludes to the long history of Southwest University's spirit of running a school. School motto "with Hong Guangda, from the past to the future"

Connotation of the motto: "with Hong Guangda, from the past to the future" of the motto, which is the president of the Chuan Dong Normal School in 1928, Mr. Gan Jiyong inscribed. Chuan Dong Normal School from the Southwest University of the earliest source of education Chuan Dong Normal School. "Contain Hong Guangda", from the "Zhouyi" chapter two "Kun": "Kun thick loaded with things, Germany and borderless. Containing Hong Guangda, the goods savory". The so-called "Kun", Ming monk Zhixu said: "Shun also, in the sky for the Yin, in the ground for the soft, in the people for benevolence, in the nature of silence, in the repair until the ...... Shun is not contrary to the actions ... ... "The so-called" Hong Guangda ", containing is omnipresent, Hong is omnipresent, light is omnipresent, large is omnipresent;" following the past to start ", from the Song Dynasty Zhu Xi" Zhu Zi Quanshu- Zhou Zishu": "So following the past saint, open to learn, and great merit in the world also." Following: inherit; Opening: open up. To inherit the cause of the predecessors and open up the way for the future. "Containing Hong Guangda, following the past and opening up the future" means "Containing Honghong, light and grand, carrying on the past and opening up the future, pioneering and innovating".

"Containing Hong Guangda, from the past to the future" as the school motto, in addition to the meaning of heavy, far-reaching, but also from the historical precipitation of the centuries-old school, can be said to have a source of water, there is the wood. Instead of the kind of benevolence, wisdom, both can be selected, but also easy to change the text. For the school, to "contain a thick, light with a grand, inheriting the fine tradition of the century-old school, create a bright future for Southwest University"; for school managers at all levels, to "visionary, broad-minded, adhering to the concept of a century of schooling, carry forward the fine tradition, shoulder the important task of developing the school to realize the goals of the school planning"; for the school management, to "foresight, broad-minded, adhering to the concept of a century of schooling, carry forward the fine tradition, shoulder the important task of developing the school. To achieve the goals of school planning"; for teachers, "to learn and be upright, to be a teacher, to carry on the past and the future, to develop and innovate"; for students, "to strive for self-improvement, to learn without end, to be honest and to carry on the past and to innovate". University spirit of "special Southwest, learning the world"

Connotation of the spirit of the University: Southwest University, born in Southwest, founded in Southwest, the apricot altar to educate people, advising the class farming, a hundred years of cultivation, including Hong Guangda; coincided with the development of the western region, advancing with the times, and the future. As a national "211" project construction of comprehensive universities, to "Southwest" title, in line with the times, in line with the land should be the people. Therefore, Southwest University is to take the unique resources of Southwest China to build its core competitiveness, to feed the Southwest China with its learning, research, and education, to serve the people's livelihood, and to integrate the world's development trend. "Southwest, learning the world" is the unique university spirit of Southwest University, which is highly condensed and manifested in a hundred years of schooling.

"Special" originates from the phrase "special" in the Book of Rites - Confucianism, which is a metaphor for the noble qualities of a gentleman. Used as the spirit of Southwest University, the word "special" should be interpreted in two ways: one is to Southwest University is located in the southwest of the natural advantages of the southwest of the unique resources of the southwest of the Southwest to raise my academics, educate my talents to help me "stand" in the forest of excellent universities; the other is the Southwest University students have always been to The second is that the students of Southwest University have always been the sage Confucian cultivation and governance, serenity and far-reaching, through heaven, earth, human character of the three talents and "stand" in the world.

"Learning line" from the "Xunzi - Confucian Effect" "learning to the line and to carry on", Yang Xiong, "French words - learning line" and said "learning, line, on the also; words, second also; teaching people, and its second also; Xian Wu Yan, for the The crowd." It can be seen that learning knowledge, teaching and educating people if it stops at making speeches and writings, preaching and teaching, that is, it belongs to the next; its highest state should be practiced diligently, and then you can distinguish between right and wrong, and use what you have learned for the society, so that, it is a "saint". As the university spirit of Southwest University, one of the interpretations of "learning" should be inheriting traditions and excelling in academics; the second interpretation should be following the past and striving for innovation. The word "conduct" also has two interpretations, one is to carry out and implement, and the other is to conduct oneself in a moral and ethical way. Therefore, on the one hand, the phrase "learning to walk in the world" refers to doing scholarly work and cultivating talents, so that the results of one's research can be implemented in the world and the cultivated talents can serve the world. On the other hand, "learning to walk in the world" refers to the teachers and students of Southwest University in the past hundred years because of the natural and humanistic nourishment of the Southwest and the formation of Taoism and learning, the quality of virtue and learning, and transformed into a good world, the action of the general public.

That is to say, Southwest University has sublimated its "special" quality from the Southwest to the generality and universality of the university spirit, and its "special" achievement of "transforming the Southwest's nature and humanities, and nurturing practical and innovative talents" has made it "special" and "universal" in the world. "With its achievements, the university "enriches the society and the people and integrates the trend of world development". The words "standing on the southwest, learning the world" not only imply the actuality of the temporal and spatial characteristics and unique resources of Southwest University, but also stipulate the direction of development and the pursuit of values of Southwest University. School Song The School Song of Southwest University Lyrics: Cao Tinghua (Professor of Southwest University), Song: Liu Qing School Fugue The Fugue of Southwest University (Professor Cao Tinghua of the College of Arts and Letters of Southwest University) School Flower, School Tree School Flower: Magnolia

School Tree: Camphor Tree