Xuē Shīshí, zì Jǐngshí 景石, was a poet of Yǒngjiā 永嘉 (modern Wēnzhōu, Zhèjiāng) in the Southern Sòng. He never took office, instead building a thatched studio on the west bank of Huìchāng Lake 會昌湖 which he called “Gourd Hut” (Guālú 瓜廬), a name borrowed from a couplet by his friend Zhào Shīxiù 趙師秀. He moved in the same Yǒngjiā poetic circle as the sìlíng — Xú Zhào 徐照, Xú Jī 徐璣, Wēng Juàn 翁卷, and Zhào Shīxiù — and shared their late-Táng aesthetic but was judged by contemporaries (and the Sìkù editors) as plainer and less mannered than they. His works survive as the Guālú jí KR4d0301, collected posthumously by his disciples and prefaced by Zhào Rǔhuí 趙汝回 in 1237. The CBDB record gives lifedates 1178–1228 (age 51 at death, agreeing with the preface).