中文版

（The English edition is in the later part of this essay.）

        我们每个人都有一头脑的知识，这些知识象积木一样，搭来搭去，新的知识就产生了。就象我们的宇宙一样，星体撞来撞去，新的宇宙就产生了。

        可是有一个问题一直困扰着我：这样的一个知识系统在它生成之初，是如何从零变成1的？或者说，是如何从1变成2的？如果整个系统从什么都没有开始，那么是如何弄出最开始的那一个存在物的？如果整个系统一开始只有一个元素，那么这唯一的一个元素和谁去碰撞或相搭呢？如果不能进行碰撞和相搭，那么1就永远变不成2，而如果我们无法从1得到2，我们自然也就无法从1、2再得到3、4、…… 那么现在的这个庞大知识系统是怎么来的？

        现在我们只知道象知识这样复杂的系统是如何往更大、更复杂发展的，至于它们一开始最简单的形态，却是个想不通的难题。对于宇宙如何从无生有，现在倒是有答案。真空不是真地空。在能量的波动之中，会诞生质量。那么知识系统如何无中生有呢？

          十几年前的有一天，我家闲着没事儿看电视剧《包公》，那一阵包公剧颇热门，许多台都在播。大家你一句、我一句议论着，女儿见我们热闹，忍不住凑过来：

        “什么是‘包公’？”

         她才七岁！我倒吸一口凉气——怎么跟这么个小小女孩儿讲清楚包公？包公已经成了一个代名词，代表了一类文化现象、一类人，——天哪，这怎么讲啊？！

         我迟疑，犹犹豫豫地说：

         “包公是一个人（不是东西），…… 包公是一个清官”

          ——天哪！什么是“清”官？

          ——什么是“官”？！

         我紧皱眉头，赶快转移方向：

        “包公长得 …… ——挺黑”，

         我对自己点点头，对，不能说长得跟黑炭似地，因为，什么是“炭”——？也不能形容成“黑得跟紫檀似的”——要是这么说，连许多大人都不懂，因为少有人见过真紫檀。

          正在肚里翻江倒海地乱想着，这时，女儿紧盯着我看的小脸忽然现出恍然大悟的样子，“啊，我知道了——”她叫起来。

          我大喜，难道她也有那传说中的冰雪聪明？——不用我说就能读懂我的内心？那可解放了我了~

         只见她迅速扫一眼电视，说：“我知道包公是什么了——是谁了....，”

         “包公就是那个......，.....”

        “那个......，.....”她比划着，

        “腰里有一个呼啦圈”。

         哈哈，笑死我了，忘记了后来她还说了什么~。  

     后记：

       对于1是如何变成2的，其实我已经有了自己的答案——我在有一天刚刚想到这个答案，暂时不便在这里说得太详细。应该感谢科学网，我是因为追求把自己的博文写得更完美些，于是就在思索中偶拾了这个答案。如果没有在科学网写博文这件事，我可能我就会错失这一个思想火花~。

English editon:

        We all have a brain, that is filled with knowledge. The knowledge is so much like a pile of building blocks. When some building blocks of knowledge, are put together with some other knowledges, which are also some building blocks, the new knowledge is created. This looks like our universe. When some stars collided with some other stares, the new stars are created.

        A question bothers me all the time: How such a knowledge system, gets its first knowledge from nothing? That is, how the knowledge system becomes a system with only 1 member, based on 0 member? How the knowledge system becomes a system with 2 members, based on only 1 member? If a system starts from nothing, then how the system above gets its first member? How 1 member is put together with nothing? If 1 has no power of becoming into 2, then the 2 has no power of becoming into 3, too. And so on. We would have not a knowledge system, at the end.

       We have the commonsense of how a system develops like the knowledge in our brain. But we don’t know the beginning of thus system. The so-called simple beginning, is not simple for us. We know now that the universe, that is a system similar to the knowledge, can get its first existing member in a vacuum. The wave of energy, creates the first existing member of quality, from zero member of quality. Now let’s ask as follows: How a knowledge system, gets its first member based on zero member?

        Once upon a time. We were watching on the TV in home. We were discussing on the serial play of Bao, that was a hot topic at that time. My daughter wanted to join us:

        ‘What is ‘Bao’?’ She asked.

        She was only 7 years old! I I gasped. How can I explain the Bao the a so little girl? The ‘Bao’ has become a pronoun, which refers to a kind of Chinese culture and represents for a kind of men. How can I explain a culture phenomenon to a so little girl?

              Let me explain for you, my foreign friend. The Bao, who names Bao Zheng, is a famous part of China Antient Opera. He was an official man in the Song dynasty in China. People like him, because he means the impartiality.

         I muttered as follows:

        ‘The Bao is a man …’

        ‘The Bao is a good official …’

         Suddenly I stopped. What is a ‘good’ official …

         And what is an ‘official’ man?

         I frown. 

      ‘The Bao has a black appearance.’ I tried to turn to another topic.

          I thought as follows: I should not mention that Bao looks like charcoal, because she didn’t know the charcoal, as well. I should not mention the ebony, because she didn’t know the ebony.

          My daughter looked at me. Suddenly, she looked at the direction of the TV set for a second, and shouted:

          ‘I know Bao is what … (no,）is who’

           ‘Bao is that, that …’

           ‘with a hu la hoop, at the waist.’

           Hahaha, it is so funny. I forgot what she said after this sentence.

Let me explain for you, my dear foreign friend. In China Antient Opera, people who are the ministers and serve the king, would wear a kind of official robe with a hard circle at the waist. The hard circle looks very much like the hu la hoop. You may not feel funny by this joke. Chinese people all feel very funny, because the Bao is a very serious people, and a people with a hu la hoop, looks very funny.

Before mine this joke, people have never associated the circle at the official man's waist, with the hu la hoop. The Chinese felt very funny when they firstly heard of this association that is created by my daughter.

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