1, the basic interpretation of "don't bend over for five buckets of rice": you can't bend over to this village man
1, the basic interpretation of "don't bend over for five buckets of rice": you can't bend over to this village man just because of five buckets of rice. Mainly people who boast of backbone, don't follow the trend and have noble character.
2, bending over: bending over to salute, refers to bending over to people. Metaphor vulgar, spineless, moved by the land. The idiom "five buckets of rice don't bend over" is a metaphor for being upright and lofty.
3. The source is "The Biography of Jin Shu Tao Qian": "Five buckets of rice can't bend the back, and the boxing is for the middle and small people in the village."