What is the motto of Peking University?

Peking University does not have a clear motto. "Diligence, rigor, truthfulness, and innovation", "erudition, inquiry, deliberation, and discernment", "patriotism, progress, democracy, and science", and "freedom of thought and inclusiveness" are not the motto of Peking University. Freedom of thought and inclusiveness" are not the mottos of Peking University.

1. The emblem of Peking University was designed in August 1917 by Mr. Lu Xun. The two seal characters "Peking University" are arranged up and down, with the character "北" constituting two sideways figures standing back to back, and the character "大" constituting a frontal figure standing up. The emblem of Peking University highlights the idea that universities should be "people-oriented".

2. Peking University does not have a school song. Yanyuan Love" was written after Peking University moved to Yanyuan in 1952, and was once considered the school song of Peking University, but it was never officially named by the university, and was not written as a school song at the beginning of its creation.

3. Peking University celebrates its anniversary on May 4. On May 4, 1912, the Peking University Hall was renamed Peking University, and on December 7, 1951, Vice President Tang Yutong proposed to change the anniversary of Peking University from December 17 to May 4, believing that the anniversary was near the end of the school year, and that it was not suitable for teachers and students to engage in any big activities. Since then, Peking University's anniversary has been changed to May 4 every year.

Expanded information:

1, Peking University is known as " Peking University", born in 1898, initially known as the Peking University Hall, is China's first modern state university, but also the earliest in the name of the "university" school, its establishment marks the beginning of modern higher education in China.

2. Peking University is the only school founded as the highest national university in modern China, and initially it is also the highest educational administrative organization in the country, exercising the functions of the Ministry of Education and supervising the national education.

3. On May 3, 1912, Peking University changed its name to Peking University, which was the first "national" university in China's history, and Yan Fu became the first president of Peking University after the name change.

4. In 1914, Hu Renyuan became the president of Peking University. At this time, Huang Kan, Koo Hongming, Qian Xuantong, Ma Shulun, Tao Menghe, Feng Zuoxun, He Yujie, Yu Tongkui and other famous scholars taught at Peking University.

5. Peking University has five departments of humanities, science, social sciences, information and engineering, and medicine, as well as the Shenzhen Research Institute, and 62 directly subordinate faculties and departments, with subject specialties covering all disciplines except military and agriculture. in 2014, Peking University had 120 undergraduate majors, of which 10 were in the Department of Medicine.

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