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| "'''Seek truth from facts'''" is a historically established expression ('']'') that first appeared in the '']''. Originally, it described an attitude toward study and research. | "'''Seek truth from facts'''" is a historically established expression ('']'') in China that first appeared in the '']''. Originally, it described an attitude toward study and research. | ||
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《漢書 ·河間獻王德傳》 The Biography of Wang De in Hejian Xian河間獻王德以孝景前二年立，修學好古，實事求是。從民得善書，必為好寫與之，留其真，加金帛賜以招之。
Hejian Xian Wang De was established two years ago with filial piety. If you get a good book from the people, you must write it for the sake of it, keep it true, and add gold and silk to recruit it.
(Book of Han)
"Seek truth from facts" is a historically established expression (chengyu) in China that first appeared in the Book of Han. Originally, it described an attitude toward study and research.
In modern Chinese culture
The slogan became a key element of Maoism, first quoted by Mao Zedong during a speech at the Sixth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1938, in reference to pragmatism. Mao had probably remembered it as being the inscription on his alma mater, Hunan's First Teachers Training School. Beginning in 1978, it was further promoted by Deng Xiaoping as a central ideology of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and applied to economic and political reforms thereafter.
Use in political context
See also: 1978 Truth Criterion ControversyIn 11th May, 1978 journalist Hu Fuming published an article in Guangming Daily entitled "Practice is the Sole Criterion for Testing the Truth"（Chinese: 实践是检验真理的唯一标准; pinyin: Shíjiàn shì jiǎnyàn zhēnlǐ de wéiyī biāozhǔn）directly contradicting then CCP general secretary Hua Guofeng's line of the "Two Whatevers" (Chinese: 两个凡是; pinyin: Liǎng gè fánshì) policy and thereby Mao Zedong's policy of class struggle in favour of economic reform championed by Deng Xiaoping. The title of the article is inspired by the saying and is widely seem as a seminal document in Chinese history marking the beginning of the Reform and Opening Up era.
References
- "河間獻王德傳". Book of Han. 111.
- Terrill, Ross (1993). Mao: A Biography. Simon & Schuster. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-671-79803-1.
- Deng, Xiaoping. "Emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts and unite as one in looking to the future". cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- "An article influences Chinese history -- china.org.cn". www.china.org.cn. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
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