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吴市吹箫
wú shì chuī xiāo
Definitions
- •to beg while playing the xiao 簫|箫[xiāo] (mouth organ)
- •cf Wu Zixu 伍子胥[wǔ zǐ xū], destitute refugee from Chu 楚[chǔ], busked in Wu town c. 520 BC, then became a powerful politician