Cut your back(shé yāo wǔ dòu)

Cut your back

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is zh é y ā ow ǔ D ǒ u, meaning to bend over for five Dou of rice. It means to endure humiliation. It is also known as "folding the waist and lifting the bucket". It comes from the book of song, volume 93, biographies of hermits, Tao Qian.

Idiom explanation

Bend down, bend down. Five doodles, five doodles of rice. Bend over for five bushels of rice. It means to endure humiliation. It is also known as "folding the waist and lifting the bucket".

Idioms and allusions

origin

In the book of song, volume 93, biographies of reclusions, Tao Qian, Tao Qian's character is Yuanming, or yunyuanming's character is Yuanliang. Zeng Zukan, the great Sima of Jin Dynasty. Qian Shao has a high interest. After tasting the biography of Mr. Wuliu, he said, "I don't know who you are. I don't know your surname. There is a Wuliu tree beside the house, because I think it's a name.". He who is quiet speaks little, does not admire glory and profit. Good reading, not understanding, every understanding, happily forget to eat. Sex is addictive to alcohol, but poverty is not constant. If you know this, you may buy some wine to make it. If you want to drink it, you will get drunk. If you are drunk, you will go back. You never hesitate to stay. Yan ruye, who is surrounded by the wind and the sun, wears a brown knot and empties many times. Taste the article to amuse oneself, show oneself ambition quite, forget gain and loss, with this from the end. This is the order of the book, which was called the record at that time. Pro old poor family, since the state wine, can not afford to official duties, few days, since the solution. State call book, No. He devoted himself to the cultivation of his own resources, so he returned to Zhenjun and Jianwei to join the army. His relatives and friends said, "is it OK to talk and sing for three ways? When the Deacon heard of it, he thought that Peng Zeling. Gongtian ordered officials to plant sorghum and rice, and his wife insisted on planting japonica rice, so that 50 mu per hectare could grow sorghum and 50 mu could grow japonica rice. When the prefect sent a letter to him, Bai Ying, the county official, sighed and said, "I can't bend down to the villains for five Dou of rice. Today, Xie yinshou left his post. Fu goes back.

interpretation

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. Then he used the words "five Dou fold, five Dou fold, five Dou fold, for rice fold, five Dou bow, fold Yingkou, fold waist" to indicate that he was humiliated, or did not fold for it, indicating that he had backbone and did not bend to serve others.

Analysis of Idioms

The same source of allusion: no child five Dou fold five Dou fold five Dou waist five Dou Lu five Dou Mi five Dou Su bow for Mi Yuan Liang fold waist bend waist fold for du you waist fold five Dou fold waist Sheng Dou fold waist official fold waist fold for five Dou fold waist for MI fold waist Yingkou belly fold waist Lu fold waist insult Dou Su Yuan Fold at the waist

Idiom usage

Example Liu Changqing's poem "when it rains in Xiashi, before the banquet, the master's book follows his brother's son's house" in Tang Dynasty: "when you break your waist and fight, you will walk with the dust." Song Xin Qiji's "water dragon chant": "white hair, westerly wind, folded waist, should not be worthy of this. "Tang Meng Haoran's poem" return of capital to Zhang Wei "says:" if you want to be partial to five dues, you can't bear it. " Tang Han Hong's poem "the narration of my brother's returning home from the south of the mountain" says: "at the beginning of the speech, five Dou of rice, only a bag of money." Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem to Ding zhongyun: "take care of five Dou of rice, innocent self imprisonment." Yu, the king of the Song Dynasty, said in the ode to sages who do not eat at home: "being an official is not exempt from the five fights, but his apprentices are peeping at the number of Ren." Sun Hua of the Tang Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty wrote the poem "in the same year, Shen Zhaosi and Ming Fu talked about the victory of Xixi in Hangzhou": "resigning from office and returning to his adoptive mother is a shame."

Chinese PinYin : shé yāo wǔ dòu