实践是检验真理的唯一标准

實踐是檢驗真理的唯一標準

shíjiàn shì jiǎnyàn zhēnlǐ de wéiyī biāozhǔn

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Meanings

1 practice is the sole criterion for testing truth
2 Practice Is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth, the 1978 Guangming Daily article that opened the debate leading to Reform and Opening Up

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Examples

HSK 3

实践是检验真理的唯一标准，你试试就知道了。

Shíjiàn shì jiǎnyàn zhēnlǐ de wéiyī biāozhǔn, nǐ shìshi jiù zhīdao le.

Practice is the sole test of truth: try it and you'll know.

HSK 7-9

《光明日报》发表的《实践是检验真理的唯一标准》一文拉开了思想解放的序幕。

《 Guāngmíng Rìbào 》 fābiǎo de 《 Shíjiàn shì jiǎnyàn zhēnlǐ de wéiyī biāozhǔn 》 yì wén lākāi le sīxiǎng jiěfàng de xùmù.

The article 'Practice Is the Sole Criterion for Testing Truth', published in the Guangming Daily, raised the curtain on the emancipation of minds.

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history

Published on 11 May 1978 in 光明日报 under the byline 'Special Commentator'; the first draft was by the Nanjing University philosophy teacher 胡福明. It struck at the 两个凡是 line (whatever Mao decided and whatever Mao instructed must be upheld). Backed by 邓小平, the nationwide debate it started cleared the way for the Third Plenum of December 1978 and 改革开放.

usage

Still quoted in everyday talk to mean 'the proof is in the doing': stop arguing and try it.

Stroke Order

实 shí

践 jiàn

是 shì

检 jiǎn

验 yàn

真 zhēn

理 lǐ

的 de

唯 wéi

一 yī

标 biāo

准 zhǔn