atone for one 's crimes by doing good deeds
The Chinese idiom, Pinyin, is d à Izu à L à g à ng, which means to take credit with a crime in order to fight for remission of punishment. From the golden biography of the flying dragon.
The origin of Idioms
Forty three chapters in the golden biography of the flying dragon: "Your Majesty temporarily pardoned Zhao Kuangyin for his crime and ordered him to perform meritorious deeds." Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty wrote the book of warning the world · Li Zhuxian's crime and scaring the Barbarians: "after asking for an amnesty, I went to Dongshi to read in person, opened the prison car, released (Guo) Ziyi, and allowed him to commit crimes and perform meritorious deeds."
Idiom usage
It is a continuous verb, a predicate and an attributive, and a loan to atone for sin.
atone for one 's crimes by doing good deeds
bring a romance to a happy ending - chéng rén zhī shàn
the real intention is revealed in the end - tú qióng bǐ xiàn
the crumbs which fall from one 's master 's table - cán bēi lěng zhì