Shide (Chinese: 拾得; pinyin: Shídé; Wade–Giles: Shih-Te; lit. 'Pick-up or Foundling', fl. 9th century) [1] was a Tang dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet at the Guoqing Temple on Mount Tiantai on the East China Sea coast; roughly contemporary with Hanshan and Fenggan, but younger than both of them.

The stories of Feng-kan (Big Stick) and Shih-te (Pickup) are intimitely linked with Han-shan (Cold Mountain). Shih-te got his name because Feng-kan found him as an abandoned boy. Feng-kan picked up the crying boy and brought him in to live as a laymember of the Kuoching Temple.

Shih-te () is a pseudonym for an eremitic Buddhist poet who lived during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.). He is reputed to have lived near a place called Han-shan (), which is located in the southern portion of modern day Chekiang () Province.

In this simple poem, Shih-te points out that it is only through mental silence that one can transcend delusion and see clearly. When this is done, when the agitations of the mind stop, there is no more coming and going.

Hanshan and Shide (Japanese: Kanzan and Jittoku) are popular figures in Zen painting who have been depicted many times as a pair, and the duo is a motif in Zen painting and representative of deeper meanings in Zen Buddhism as a whole.

[ Shih-te and Han-Shan portraits by Yen Hui (aka Yuang, 1280-1368); China. Han-shan symbolizes theory and pureness of thought and usually pictured with a scroll, while Shih-te symbolizes practice and contact with the world and is usually pictured with a broom. National Museum, Tokyo; classified as national treasures.] Han-Shan and Shih-Te

"Han Shan and Shih-te are two inseparable characters in the history of Zen Buddhism, forming one of the most favourite subjects of Sumiye painting by Zen artists. Han Shan was a poet-recluse of the T'ang dynasty.

The first and by far the most famous Ch'an (Zen) eccentrics are Han-shan ("Cold Mountain"; Japanese: Kanzan) and Shih-te ("Foundling"; Japanese: Jittoku). The origins of the legends of Han-shan and his inseparable companion Shih-te can be traced to a collection of about three hundred T'ang poems, known as the Collected Poems of Han-shan .

May 7, 2019 · The incomparable poetry of Han Shan and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets, has long captured the imagination of readers, Zen aficionados, and other poets. These legendary T'ang era (618–907) figures are portrayed as a laughing ragged pair who left poetry on stones, trees, farmhouses, and the walls of monasteries.