Southern-Sòng cí-writer (fl. Qiándào through Jiātài, c. 1167–1209), zì Jièzhī 介之, hào Tǎnān jūshì 坦菴居士. Seventh-generation descendant of Sòng Tàizǔ’s eldest son Yānwáng Zhào Dézhāo 趙德昭, hence a Sòng imperial-clan member. The name is given as Shīshǐ 師使 in the Máo Jìn 毛晉 cutting and Sìkù reception, but as Shīxiá 師侠 in Chén Zhènsūn 陳振孫’s Shūlù jiětí and Chén Jǐngyí 陳景沂’s Quán fāng bèi zǔ (graphic confusion between 使 and 侠); modern scholarship follows Shīxiá as the correct form. Took the jìnshì and held a succession of southern-circuit postings — Yìyáng, Yùzhāng, Liǔzhōu, Yíchūn, Xìnfēng, XiāoXiāng, Héngyáng, Púzhōng, Chángshā — extensively documented in the cyclical-date footnotes to his cí. His sole extant work is the Tǎnān cí KR4j0024, in one juǎn, preserving around 152 cí; his pupil Yǐn Jué 尹覺 wrote the original preface praising his xiāoshū dànyuǎn 蕭踈淡遠 (“plain-sparse, distant-light”) manner. The Sìkù tíyào places him in a high register but criticizes a slightly over-quick brush.