Identity
The official university motto is "Noble in Spirit, Boundless in Knowledge" (simplified Chinese: 气有浩然 学无止境; traditional Chinese: 氣有浩然 學無止境; pinyin: qì yŏu hào rán, xué wú zhǐ jìng); it was adopted in May 2002. The university also uses the branding slogan "Soul of the mountains, spirit of the sea" (Chinese: 山之魂, 海之韵; pinyin: Shān zhī hún, hǎi zhī yùn) in reference to Shandong's geographical nature as a mountainous peninsula. The official lettering is a reproduction of calligraphy written by Mao Zedong. In March 1964, during the period between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, Mao wrote the characters in the address of a thank-you note to Gao Heng, a professor at Shandong University who had sent him literature. The official song of Shandong University was written by lyricist Qiao Yu (乔羽), who also wrote the lyrics for My Motherland, and composer Gu Jianfen (谷建芬), both natives of Shandong Province. The lyrics of the official song are:
我们向往大海, Wǒmen xiàngwǎng dà hǎi,
只有大海能纳百川。 Zhǐyǒu dà hǎi néng nà bǎi chuān.
我们敬仰高山, Wǒmen jìngyǎng gāo shān
登高望远才知地阔天宽。 Dēnggāo wàng yuǎn cái zhī dì kuò tiān kuān.
勇于探索，不畏登攀。 Yǒngyú tànsuǒ, bù wèi dēngpān.
淡泊的襟怀，炽热的情感， Dànbó de jīnhuái, chìrè de qínggǎn,
让文明之花嫣红开遍。 Ràng wénmíng zhī huā yānhóng kāi biàn.
同学少年，青春结伴。 Tóngxué shàonián, qīngchūn jiébàn.
知识无涯，生命无限！ Zhīshì wú yá, shēngmìng wúxiàn!
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Famous quotes containing the word identity:
“One of the most highly valued functions of used parents these days is to be the villains of their children’s lives, the people the child blames for any shortcomings or disappointments. But if your identity comes from your parents’ failings, then you remain forever a member of the child generation, stuck and unable to move on to an adulthood in which you identify yourself in terms of what you do, not what has been done to you.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women.... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)
“Unlike Boswell, whose Journals record a long and unrewarded search for a self, Johnson possessed a formidable one. His life in London—he arrived twenty-five years earlier than Boswell—turned out to be a long defense of the values of Augustan humanism against the pressures of other possibilities. In contrast to Boswell, Johnson possesses an identity not because he has gone in search of one, but because of his allegiance to a set of assumptions that he regards as objectively true.”
—Jeffrey Hart (b. 1930)