陶渊明“不为五斗米折腰”的典故是人们都很熟悉的,教师在讲《归园田居》、《归去来兮辞》时也经常提到。可是,许多人、许多地方都把“五斗米”解作微薄的官俸,这就不免有些望文生义了。那么“五斗米”是什么呢?应该是五斗米道,它创自东汉末的张陵,因学道者须出五斗米而得名,又 The story of Tao Yuanming’s “not to get rid of the five buckets of meters” is very familiar to the people. Teachers often mention it when they talk about “returning to the garden” and “returning from the garden”. However, many people and many places have turned the “five buckets of rice” into meagre bureaucrats. So what is the “five buckets of rice”? It should be a five-bow meter road. It was created in Zhangling in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It was named after the scholars had to produce five buckets of rice.