to play the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1], a vertical bamboo flute; (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[wu2 shi4 chui1 xiao1]); (slang) to give a blowjob

panpipes

reed-pipe wind instrument and vertical bamboo flute

nose flute

(idiom) to beg on the streets; to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4])