Later, when Zhong Ziqi died, Bo Ya broke his strings and destroyed his qin; he never played the qin again. He thought there would never be anybody else deserving to be played for in this world.
後來鍾子期死了，伯牙破琴絕弦，終身不再鼓琴，認為這個世界上沒有人值得再為他鼓琴。