1.(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潜[táo qián], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate)2.(fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南凉[nán liáng] (397-414), Western Liang 西凉 (400-421)
the “five red categories” (Cultural Revolution term), i.e. poor and lower-middle peasants, workers, revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary cadres, and revolutionary martyrs
(neologism) person who posts online in support of the Chinese government, but unlike a wumao 五毛[wǔ máo], is not paid for doing so (abbr. for 自带干粮的五毛[zì dài gān liáng de wǔ máo])
the five treaty ports forced on Qing China by the 1842 treaty of Nanjing 南京条约 that concluded the First Opium War, namely: Guangzhou 广州, Fuzhou 福州, Ningbo 宁波, Xiamen or Amoy 厦门 and Shanghai 上海
Five Sacred Mountains of the Daoists, namely: Mt Tai 泰山[tài shān] in Shandong, Mt Hua 华山[huà shān] in Shaanxi, Mt Heng 衡山[héng shān] in Hunan, Mt Heng 恒山[héng shān] in Shanxi, Mt Song 嵩山[sōng shān] in Henan