在二十岁之后,有那么一段时间里,我曾与一位养蜂人比邻而居,这使我对蜜蜂有了一种全新的看法。在此之前,我对蜜蜂的了解仅仅停留在初高中的生物课本上:它们集群而居,分工明确,尊重女性,会跳八字舞和建造几何的巢穴。但对我这位养蜂多年的邻居来说,蜜蜂和蜂巢显然不单单如此,而具有了某种脱离了现实意义的宗教神学不可探知的神秘色彩。蜂巢就像是一座圣殿,蜜蜂则是生活在其间的天使。他带着敬畏和狂热的口吻向我描述蜂群离巢时的场景:那 After two years of age, for a while, I had lived next to a beekeeper, giving me a fresh idea of ​​bees. Until now, my knowledge of bees only remained in biology textbooks for junior high schools: they clustered, had a clear division of labor, respected women, danced in hieroglyphs and built geometry nests. But for many years as a neighbor of beekeeping, the bees and the hive obviously have more to do with mystery beyond the reach of the religious theology. The beehive is like a temple, and the bees are the angels living there. He described me in awe and fanatical tones the scene when the bee left the nest: that