Chinese
吹箫乞食 / 吹簫乞食 [chuīxiāoqǐshí]
to beg while playing the xiao 箫 (mouth organ); cf Wu Zixu 伍子胥, destitute refugee from Chu 楚, busked in Wu town c. 520 BC, then became a powerful politician
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