Original text:
Simple and expensive, not personal. The county sent Du You to the county, and Li Bai was bound to see him. He sighed and said, "I can't bend over for five buckets of rice." Boxing is evil for the young people in the village! " In the second year of Yixi, all the songs were returned to the county, and the Ci of xi was assigned.
Vernacular translation:
The county sent Du You to his county, and the subordinates said they would wear formal clothes to see Du You. Tao Qian sighed and said, "I can't bend down (lose my dignity) for five buckets of rice (these salaries) and work carefully for the country's little people!" In the second year, Yixi returned the seal and left pengze county, so he wrote "Gui xi Ci".
Extended data:
It is an idiom not to bend over for five buckets of rice. It means to be spineless and lofty. Wudoumi: the salary of the county magistrate in the Jin Dynasty, later referred to as salary; Bend down: Bend down to salute, which means bending down to salute others. Metaphor vulgar, spineless, moved by the land.
The origin of idioms:
In the autumn of 405 AD, in order to support his family, he came to Pengze, not far from his hometown, as a county magistrate. In the winter of this year, I met Du You who was sent by Xunyang County to inspect official business during my eighty-one days in the office. Liu Yun, a native of Xunyang County, is famous for his greed for money. He asks for bribes from the county twice a year in the name of patrol, and comes back with full load every time, otherwise it will be planted. Du You, who was sent here this time, is a vulgar and arrogant person. As soon as he arrived at Penzer's guest house, he sent a county magistrate to call a county magistrate to see him. ?
Tao Yuanming usually despises fame and fortune, refuses to obey orders, despises such a person who gives orders in the name of a higher level, but he wants to see it again, so he set off at once. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate stopped Tao Yuanming and said, "My Lord, Du, you should wear official clothes and a big belt, otherwise it will be indecent. Du, you take the opportunity to make a scene, which is not good for adults! "
Therefore, Tao Yuanming couldn't stand it any longer. Sighed and said, "I can't bend over to the villains in the village for five buckets of rice!" " "Say, simply take out the official seal, stamped it, then wrote a letter of resignation, and then left pengze county, who was only a magistrate for more than eighty days.