1982年秋天,在美国洛杉矶举行了一次中美作家会议。宴会上,美国诗人艾伦·金斯伯格请我国作家蒋子龙解个怪谜:“把一只5斤重的鸡装进一个只能装1斤水的瓶子里,您用什么办法把它拿出来?” In the fall of 1982, a Sino-American writer conference was held in Los Angeles, the United States. At the banquet, American poet Alan Ginsberg invited our writer Jiang Zilong to solve a strange mystery: “Put a 5-pound heavy chicken into a bottle that can hold only 1-jin of water. How do you put it take it out?”