HOSPITALITY    好客厚遇

POLITE GENEROSITY FOR FOREIGNERS, STRANGERS OR GUESTS.
FRIENDLINESSHOSPITABLENESSWARM RECEPTIONWELCOMEHELPFULNESSNEIGHBORLINESSWARMTHKINDNESSCONGENIALITYGENIALITYCORDIALITYCOURTESYAMENABILITYGENEROSITYENTERTAINMENTCATERINGFOOD
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The notion of hospitality towards strangers in need and to travellers passing through which is so important in ancient Greece is not as prominent in China as it was in Greece. The closest one can come is hòu 厚 "meet with polite respect and generous hospitality" (ant. báo 薄 "fail to treat with generous hospitality and proper respect").2. Lǐ 禮 "show polite respect to" (ant. màn 慢 "treat without proper respect") refers to ritualised respect which is the Chinese Way of hospitality and does connote conviviality. See also RESPECT.
Modern Chinese Criteria
熱情 熱心 熱忱 熱心腸 好客 滿腔熱忱 古道熱腸 有求必應 來者不拒 殷勤 殷 賓至如歸 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • GENEROUS　HABITUALLY GIVE of one's WEALTH to THOSE WHO NEED it. (anc: 13/0, child: 3)
  • GIVE　CAUSE someone TO POSSESS in the FUTURE what one POSSESSES at PRESENT. (anc: 12/0, child: 13)
  • CAUSE TO　MOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES. (anc: 11/0, child: 18)
  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    HOSPES/HOSPITALITAS

    • Words (4 items)

    禮  lǐ OC: riiʔ MC: lei 25 Attributions

    Lǐ 禮 "show polite respect to" (ant. màn 慢 "treat without proper respect") refers to ritualised respect which is the Chinese Way of hospitality and does connote conviviality. See also RESPECT.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactritually appropriate hospitalityLZ
    • vt(oN)show ritual respect to (with contextually understood object)
    • vtoNgradedshow ritual respect for (a person), treat politely; show public respect for (behaviour or a skill) 大禮之 SEE ALSO THE ENTRY UNDER "RESPECT" WHICH IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THIS!
    厚遇  hòu yù OC: ɡooʔ ŋos MC: ɦu ŋi̯o 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPtoNtreat with generous hospitality
    禮遇  lǐ yù OC: riiʔ ŋos MC: lei ŋi̯o 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabpost-Han (HOUHANSHU): polite treatment of guests
    厚  hòu OC: ɡoos MC: ɦu 0 Attributions

    The notion of hospitality to strangers in need and to travellers passing through which is so important in ancient Greece is not as prominent in China as it was in Greece. The closest one can come is hòu 厚 "meet with polite respect and generous hospitality" (ant. báo 薄 "fail to treat with generous hospitality and proper respect").

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNtreat sumptuously, treat well