鍾子期

Spring-and-Autumn-period figure; the proverbial zhīyīn 知音 (“one who knows the sound”) of the qín-player 伯牙 Bóyá. Source of the zhīyīn metaphor that titles 如愚 Rúyú’s late-Míng Lotus Sūtra commentary Fǎhuá jīng zhīyīn 法華經知音 (KR6d0074).