Chinese Philosophy and Water

YONG: Everlasting; Perpetual; forever

One generation comes and and another goes, but water flows on incessantly in a continuous cycle. 

From this unceasing flow of water came the ideograph for "everlasting": a variation of water, with foams and ripples added: water will be remembered as the "everlasting" character that embodies the eight fundamental strokes used in calligraphy.