return the hospitality that one has received
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is zh ī Nb à OD é, which means to repay someone's kindness when you receive it. It comes from Qunying Lei Xuan, the story of the red snake, the harmony of touching the body.
The origin of Idioms
"I'm sorry to see that my soul has been sold out, but it's hard to mix up the feeling of repaying kindness with kindness," says the book of heroes
Idiom usage
It means to know one's kindness in return
Chinese PinYin : zhī ēn bào dé
return the hospitality that one has received
Holding ice in winter and holding fire in summer. dōng hán bào bīng,xià rè wò huǒ
We will not let go of our debt. ēn bù fàng zhai