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| Processed by: | kbaiko (2025-07-02 11:09:31 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 82774 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> vertical bamboo flute, I believe -- not mouth organ (which would have reeds) or even panpipes (排箫) M ~ 春秋時伍子胥自楚逃至吳，曾於吳市吹簫乞食，見《史記·卷七九·范睢蔡澤列傳》。後用以比喻行乞街頭或飄泊流浪，生活困頓。 如：「這個星期如果再找不著工作，可真要吳市吹簫了！」 https://www.moedict.tw/%E5%90%B3%E5%B8%82%E5%90%B9%E7%B0%AB 來自《史記·卷七十九·范睢蔡澤列傳》： 伍子胥橐載而出昭關，夜行晝伏，至於陵水，無以糊其口，膝行蒲伏，稽首肉袒，鼓腹吹簫，乞食于吳市。 https://zh.wiktionary.org/zh-hant/%E5%90%B3%E5%B8%82%E5%90%B9%E7%B0%AB |
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- 吳市吹簫 吴市吹箫 [Wu2 shi4 chui1 xiao1] /to beg while playing the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ)/cf Wu Zixu 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1], destitute refugee from Chu 楚[Chu3], busked in Wu town c. 520 BC, then became a powerful politician/ + 吳市吹簫 吴市吹箫 [[wu2shi4-chui1xiao1]] /(idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3ji4])/ |