to couple / to link / to hook together / (fig.) (preceded by 與|与[yu3] + {entity}) to establish contact (with {entity}) / (Tw) to collude (with {entity}) / (fig.) to link (marketing efforts with production etc) / to peg (welfare payments to inflation etc) / to tie (remuneration to performance etc) / hook (on which to hang sth) / latch hook / coupling
(idiom) In an old custom, it referred to payments or gifts given to a private tutor on three festivals and two birthdays: the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the New Year, as well as Confucius’s birthday and the tutor’s birthday.
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