What is this fable called? The specific story is as follows.

Lu has a long pole to enter the city gate. At first, he took it vertically, but he couldn't get in horizontally, and he couldn't get in either. There is no way out. An old father in Russia said: "I am not a saint, but I have seen many." Why don't you use a saw to go in? " "Then cut it off.

[Edit this paragraph] Long pole translation into the city

There was a man in the state of Lu who walked into the city gate with a long pole. At first he stood up and held it, but he couldn't get into the gate. He came and hugged, but he couldn't get into the gate. I really can't think of a way. After a while, an old man came and said, "I am not a saint, but I have seen many things." Why not use a saw to cut off the long pole and enter the city gate? " So the Lu people cut off the long pole according to the old man's method.

[Edit this paragraph] Appreciate

This article is excerpted from China's first joke collection "Laughing Forest" (written by Ren Wei Han Danchun during the Three Kingdoms period). Laugh at both the Lu people with long poles and his inflexibility; I even laughed at my old father who saw the pole go to town and laughed at his cleverness as a teacher. The latter is not only ridiculous, but also harmful. This story has been passed down to the present, which has evolved into "catching fools" in Xi's "Exploring the Record" in the Qing Dynasty.

[Edit this paragraph] Long pole into the city.

The "long-term leader" is a fool, who can't think about things, rigidly follows the rules and does not know how to be flexible.

"Old father" is not as good as a fool. He is clever, unruly and self-defeating, but he is ready to help others.

This story illustrates two points:

1, limiting the three-dimensional European transformation to two dimensions will lead to some things that are not so perfect, if not unsolvable.

Sometimes, seemingly unsolvable problems can actually be solved by divide and conquer, that is, turning big problems into small ones.

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