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Cheng Yujian 成玉磵間
  His zhifa only survives from Qinshu Daquan?  
Cheng Yujian1 is said to have been a qin master in Kaifeng at the beginning of the 12th century CE, when it was the capital city of the Song dynasty.

Cheng is credited with at least two important qin documents

  1. Finger Techiques (指法 Zhi Fa)
    An explanation of finger techniques, included in Qinshu Daquan, Folio 8 (Qinqu Jicheng, V/157-160).
    These finger technique explanations include an unusually large amount of commentary.

  2. Qin Essay (琴論 Qin Lun)
    A lengthy essay included in Qinshu Daquan, Folio 10 (Qinqu Jicheng, V/206-8);
    This essay is discussed in QSCB, Chapter 6c7 as well as in Chapter 6b3

In his Explanation of You Lan Finger Techniques, Wang Mengshu sometimes quotes this source but has little further information. He says it has 29 right hand techniques, 36 left hand techniques, and covers six pages, associating it with the finger techniques in a section of Taiyin Daquanji (QQJC V/94-98) called Specific Steps for Getting Started (名數發端 Ming Shu Fa Duan), which covers 10 pages and has 45 right hand then 20 left hand plus a list of 38 shorthand forms. 2

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Cheng Yujian 成玉磵
Cheng Yujian (11820.xxx) apparently lived during 1111-1117, but there seems to be no information about him other what may be in the two surviving essays mentioned here.
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2. There is also a brief quote from his Zhi Fa in Wang Shixiang's article on Guangling San.
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