make amends for previous faults by some good services
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì g ō NGB ǔ guॸ, which means to test a person's achievements to make up for his mistakes. It comes from the Han Dynasty, emperor yuan.
Notes on Idioms
Plan: examination; loss: fault.
The origin of Idioms
In the Han Dynasty, XunYue's "Han Ji, Yuan Di Ji", it is said that "Qi Heng made great contributions to Kuang Zhou first, and then made up for his crimes
Analysis of Idioms
Make up for one's mistakes
Idiom usage
To make up for one's fault by examining one's merits.
Chinese PinYin : jì gōng bǔ guò
make amends for previous faults by some good services
deliver all living creatures from torment. pǔ dù qún shēng
carry on a predecessor 's task and make a greater success of it. zhǒng shì zēng huá
be handsome and highly esteemed. xiàng mào táng táng