Xie Shichen (1487-?), a painter of the Ming Dynasty. The courtesy name is Sizhong and the nickname is Xiuxian. A native of Cheung Chau (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province), he is still alive at the age of eighty-one. He is good at calligraphy and is good at official script. He is good at landscape painting. He learned from Wu Zhen and Shen Zhou. With slight changes, he has both "Zhejiang School" and "Wumen School" brushwork, and his style is unique.
Most of his works are composed of long scrolls. He is famous for his good painting of water, rivers, lakes and seas, all of which are exquisite. He also wrote that the mountains are overlapping, towering and precipitous, and the brushwork is either dense and vigorous, or vigorous and melancholy, or spread vertically and horizontally, full of changes. There are "Pictures of Range Rover in Xishan", "Pictures of Searching for Secrets with a Staff", "Pictures of Wudang Snow", "Pictures of Banished Immortals Wandering on the Moon", etc. handed down from generation to generation.