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Art/Literary - History | | Chinese term or phrase: 问渠哪得清如许 | 问渠哪得请如许, 为有源头活水来.
From an article about the history of a Chinese university. |
| | | English translation:Asking how the water acquires its purity? The answer lies in the lively source of the springhead | Explanation:
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渠 -1. third-person pronoun
2. 【說文】水所居也。即水流之体。
哪 - a question word in Simplified Chinese (not a typo, in spite of its being a borrowed character from an ancient character which has different meaning );哪得 means "how" or "how come."
The allusion to these two lines serves to explain the cultural origin of the University in Shandong, the origin of ancient 齐鲁文化. So the metaphor is:
山东大学，学统纯正，源远流长，来自古老的齐鲁文化荟萃之地。 |
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