Go to town with a pole to see the answer

Hold (Hold, hold) (pronoun, it, for long pole) to (come) cut (cut)

2. Sentence translation:

At the beginning, I couldn't get in if I held it vertically, and I couldn't get in if I held it horizontally. I couldn't figure it out.

At first I stood up and hugged, but I couldn't get into the gate. Later, I came to hold it, but I couldn't get into the gate. I really can't think of any way.

Why not use a saw?

Why not use a saw to cut off the long pole and enter the city gate?

3. Meaning

This story tells us:

(1), some things are not perfect solutions, if not insoluble.

(2) Sometimes, seemingly unsolvable problems can actually be solved by divide and conquer, that is, turning big problems into small ones. The old father's method is uneven segmentation in today's language.

(3) Although this is a joke, this joke tells people a truth: think flexibly and don't be one-sided.