Shi Ke, year of birth and death unknown, was a painter at the end of the fifth dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty. Zizhuan, Chengdu Piren (now Pidu District, Chengdu), a painter of the fifth generation of China. His creative activities were active from the end of the Five Dynasties to the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty. The temperament is uninhibited and funny. He is good at painting Buddhism, people, ghosts and gods, and the characters in his works are mostly ugly and bizarre, and his pen and ink are indulgent and unconventional, and he uses the ancient characters in his works to insult and ridicule the wealthy and powerful. His works include "Two Ancestors Tune the Heart" and so on. 
He is eccentric, comical and cynical, daring to break with tradition, with strong and wild gestures, concise and exaggerated images, and straightforward expression. The main purpose of painting is to express subjective feelings and interests. Painting Buddhist figures, the first teacher Zhang Nanben, after the stroke is indulgent, not rules. In the third year of Qiande (965), Meng Shuping, to the Song capital, was ordered to paint the wall of Xiangguo Temple. It is not enough to be awarded the position of the painting academy, so I insist on returning it to Shu and allowing it. Attacking ancient characters, learning Zhang Nanben's brushwork, although the noble and noble, there are few shortcomings, and there must be ridicule in the pictures. The appearance of the work may be ugly and strange to show change. In the eighth year of Kaibao (975), I tried to paint the wall of Xiangguo Temple. 
Shi Ke, a scholar of Confucianism, is good at painting, attacks ancient characters, and learns Zhang Nanben's brushwork. 
The picture of the two ancestors is showing the scene of Hui Ke and Feng Gan, the two Zen patriarchs, when they were in Zen. Hui is the second ancestor of Zen Buddhism. In the painting, Hui Ke is sitting on his elbows with his arms and elbows, and another painting is sitting on the back of a tiger as tame as a cat.