What are the stories about Lu people holding poles?

The ancient prose, translation and annotations of Lu Ren Zhi Gan are as follows:

First, the ancient prose:

If Lu ruo has a long pole to enter the city gate, he will hold it vertically at the beginning and cannot enter. You can't get in if you hold it sideways. Nothing can be done. My father came to Russia and said, "I am not a saint, but I have seen many things." Why don't I go in with a saw? " So I cut it off. The fools in the world lag far behind.

Second, translation:

There is a man in Lu who wants to enter the city gate with a long bamboo pole. At first he held it upright and couldn't get into the city. Take it sideways again, but you still can't get in. He can't think of any other way. After a while, an old man came and said, "I am not a saint, but I have seen many things." Why don't you cut it off from the middle with a saw and put it in? " So according to the old man's idea, he cut down the long bamboo pole. No one in the world can compare with a stupid person.

Three. Precautions:

① Lu: The name of an ancient country, in Qufu, Shandong Province today.

2 hold: hold，hold。

③ Start: Start.

4 also: also.

⑤ Plan: Plan, strategy and method.

6 Russia: for a while.

⑦ Father (pronounced as f incarnation, a common name, it should be "axe"): called the old man in ancient times.

Dan: Just.

Pet-name ruby, therefore, just.

⑩ according to: according to, according to.

Fourth, significance:

Those who think they have no practical skills, those who lack independent opinions, don't know how to be flexible, and only blindly listen to others.

This fable tells people a truth-thinking should be active, not one-sided and stubborn.

Extended content:

Laughing Forest is a collection of ancient jokes. It was written by Wei Han Chanchun in the Three Kingdoms. Three volumes. The recorded stories are humorous, and they are the earliest joke books in ancient China. The original books have been lost, and now there are more than 20. Lu Xun's "Ancient Novel Hooking and Sinking" is relatively complete.

Han Danchun was born in Yingchuan (now Yu County, Henan Province). Han Danchun is well-read and good at calligraphy. The three volumes of "Laughing Forest" edited by him are all laughing stories that ridicule ignorance, and some of them have strong social significance. This book has been lost, and there are only 29 books left. Some joke books of later generations were all influenced by Xiaolin.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-"The Sense of Lu People"