xiao, a vertical bamboo flute
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panpipes
(idiom) to beg on the streets / to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[])
to play the xiao 簫|箫[], a vertical bamboo flute / (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[]) / (slang) to give a blowjob
see 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[]
virtuoso piper wins a beauty / the xiao 簫|箫[] (mouth organ) virtuoso 蕭史|萧史[] won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公[]
reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute
nose flute
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