一、推行“中华经典诗文诵读工程”的背景1997年,江泽民同志在哈佛大学发表的演讲中谈到中华民族优秀的传统文化时说:“记得我在高中读书时,老师给我们讲微积分,第一课就是讲《庄子》中的‘一尺之棰,日取其半,万世不竭’,很形象地使我建立起极限的概念。这表明中国古人早就认识 I. Introduction to Carrying out the “Classic Chinese Verse Recitation Project” In 1997, in his speech delivered at Harvard University, Comrade Jiang Zemin spoke of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation and said: “Remember when I was in high school, my teacher told us about calculus , The first lesson is to tell the story of ”Chuang-tzu" and the concept of limit, which vividly enables me to establish the concept of limit.