congee

Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly)

Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):

Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.

So courteous conge both did giue and take, With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.

Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.

A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.

To give congee, (particularly)

To give congee, (particularly)

To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.

To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.

A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.

In a past life in Fuzhou, it represented some reality other than the one of daily congee and pickled turnips, cabbage and boiled rip soup.