HOSPITALITY  好客厚遇

POLITE GENEROSITY FOR FOREIGNERS, STRANGERS OR GUESTS.
FRIENDLINESSHOSPITABLENESSWARM RECEPTIONWELCOMEHELPFULNESSNEIGHBORLINESSWARMTHKINDNESSCONGENIALITYGENIALITYCORDIALITYCOURTESYAMENABILITYGENEROSITYENTERTAINMENTCATERINGFOOD
Hypernym
  • GENEROUSHABITUALLY GIVE of one's WEALTH to THOSE WHO NEED it.
    • GIVECAUSE someone TO POSSESS in the FUTURE what one POSSESSES at PRESENT.
      • CAUSE TOMOVE in SUCH a way that THEREFORE someone or something else CHANGES.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
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 ／

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    HOSPES/HOSPITALITAS

Words

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  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
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

Existing SW for

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