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Wudouzheyao is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is w ǔ D ǒ UZH é y ā o, which means to bow to the superior for a meager salary. From the biography of Tao Qian in the book of Jin.

The origin of Idioms

Tao Qian's biography in the book of Jin: "I can't bend down for five Dou of rice."

Idioms and allusions

Source of allusion

Liang Xiaotong's biography of Tao Yuanming: Tao Yuanming was the magistrate of Pengze County. "At the end of the year, Huijun sent the governor to mail to the county. The county official asked," you should see it with a belt. " Yuanming sighed, "how can I bend down to the children of the village for five Dou of rice?" I'm going to leave now. " It is also recorded in the biography of Tao Yuanming in the book of Jin.

Interpretation of allusions

In the Jin Dynasty, Tao Qian (named Yuanming) had been an official several times. Because of the corruption of the official administration at that time, he didn't want to go along with others, and he didn't want to take humiliation for his official salary, so he resigned and went to seclusion. He lived in seclusion in a mountain stream, dressed in coarse linen cloth and worked by himself. In his later years, he was very poor and sick. Tan Daoji, the governor of Jiangzhou, asked him to be an official, but he politely refused. Tao Yuanming is not willing to bow to those "village children" for the salary of wudoumi. After that, he used "five Dou fold waist, five Dou fold waist, five Dou fold waist, five Dou fold waist"

Idiom usage

To be servile is to be servile

Examples

1. He is firm in nature and pure in heart. How can he be bowed down because of five fights. Ming Dynasty · Wang Shizhen's the fifth story of Ming Feng

2. We primary school students should not give up.

Analysis of Idioms

Don't bend over for five Dou of rice

Idiom story

In the Jin Dynasty, Tao Qian (named Yuanming) had been an official several times. Because of the corruption of the official administration at that time, he didn't want to go along with others, and he didn't want to take humiliation for his official salary, so he resigned and went to seclusion. He lived in seclusion in a mountain stream, dressed in coarse linen cloth and worked by himself. In his later years, he was very poor and sick. Tan Daoji, the governor of Jiangzhou, asked him to be an official, but he politely refused.