"Virtue": Yi Kun Gua: "The terrain is Kun, and a gentleman carries things with virtue." "Carrying things by virtue" embodies the national spirit of the Chinese nation that conforms to nature, keeps pace with the times, embraces everything with a broad and tolerant moral mind and carries ideals. We quote the word "virtue" in order to expect teachers and students to establish themselves with noble morality and shoulder the heavy responsibility of the world with noble morality. "Virtue" emphasizes tolerance for people and things, and people should follow suit, be generous and live in harmony. This means that people are broad-minded, magnanimous and have good moral cultivation. "Benevolence" is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation and the basic spirit of China's traditional culture, and its essence has already been integrated into the spiritual blood of the Chinese nation. The "virtue" here means advocating morality and attaching importance to moral education. Morality is the need of the times and the soul of running a school. Morality is the first thing to learn, the soul of the school, and the rule of the school by virtue, so it is called "thick virtue".

"erudite": from the Analects of Confucius Zhang Zi: "erudite and determined, inquisitive and close to thinking." "erudition" refers to both extensive knowledge and profound knowledge. The "erudition" in the new school motto is to advocate teachers and students to study hard, learn from others, and pursue extensive knowledge and profound knowledge. In China's traditional culture, the exposition of "erudition" and the experience of doing scholarly research have been enlightening to later scholars, such as: "Being erudite and refined, you make an agreement with irony" (Mencius Li Lou); "Never tire of learning and never tire of teaching" (The Analects of Confucius); "Learn until almost" ("Xunzi, Persuade to Learn"); "Sensitive and studious, not ashamed to ask questions" (The Analects of Confucius Gongye Chang); "Those who are eager to learn, make up for their shortcomings in name only" (Lv Chunqiu User) and so on. "erudition" means to learn extensively with a broad and tolerant attitude. Only in this way can we learn from the East and the West, be eclectic, combine arts and sciences, learn from others' strengths and keep pace with the times, so that learning can have a world vision, broaden our minds and truly make the tree of theory evergreen. The school motto chooses the word "erudite", emphasizes the accumulation and inheritance of scientific and cultural knowledge, advocates the constant pursuit of new knowledge with new ideas and ways of thinking, dares to explore the true meaning of learning, and obtains more knowledge from a broader perspective and a deeper level.

"Deliberate thinking": The original text is from Chapter 19 of The Doctrine of the Mean: "erudition, doubt, thinking, understanding and faith". Confucius's "The Analects of Confucius for Politics" said: "Learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous", emphasizing that we should be diligent in thinking, be good at connecting with the original knowledge, and have some feelings; "Reading without knowing is thinking, and thinking without knowing is reading" (Zhu Zhixue) guides learners to think while reading; The way to learn is to find problems and solve them. Through the processing and processing of knowledge from coarse to fine, from false to true, from the outside to the inside, the essence and law of learned knowledge are revealed. Teachers, on the other hand, "teaching without thinking is useless, thinking without teaching is dangerous", which means that teachers should seriously explore and study knowledge and problems.

Innovation is the soul of national progress. Innovation is an important quality of China culture. The Book of Rites University said: "New is new, new is new." "Poverty will change, change will pass, and the general rule will last for a long time." (Book of Changes) "Work all day and keep pace with the times." (Zhou Yi Gan Classical Chinese) "Only progress will lead to new progress." (Liang Qichao's "On young chinese"), these thoughts have laid a positive and enterprising spirit of China culture. To innovate, we must keep pace with the times and lead the trend of the times. Without innovation, society cannot develop and human beings cannot progress. Tao Xingzhi said in the Declaration of Creation: "everywhere is a place of creation, every day is a time of creation, and everyone is a genius of creation. Let's take at least two steps back and go to the road of creation! " Therefore, teachers must be original and become the real torch of students' rational creation and ideological enlightenment. Whether a teacher has enterprising and innovative spirit, whether he can keep learning new knowledge and whether he can teach creatively will be the key to our invincible position. It can be seen that "innovation" is a concise summary of teachers' behavior characteristics, a concentrated expression of cultural awareness of educational activities, and a macro grasp of the future development of the school.

In the school motto, "virtue" highlights the educational concept of moral education; "erudition" is the goal of learning and learning; "serious thinking" emphasizes the prominent role of serious thinking in learning practice; "Innovation" is the perfect state to be achieved in the pursuit of truth and the highest ideal that education can achieve. Above the school emblem is the Chinese name of the college, and the middle pattern consists of buildings and rivers. The building itself looks like an L, which means Lanzhou. Patterns generally express the meaning of "Lanzhou City". Louhexia 1958 indicates that the history of the college can be traced back to 1958. The following is the English name of Lanzhou City University.