What is "shide"

Shide \Shide\ (sh[imac]d), n. [OE. shide, schide, AS. sc[=i]de; akin to OHG. sc[=i]t, G. scheit, Icel. sk[=i][eth], and E. shed, v.t.] A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter. [Prov. Eng.]

n. 1 A thin board; a billet of wood; splinter. 2 A piece of wood; strip; piece split off; plank.

Shide (, fl. 9th century) 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. As close friends the three of them formed the " Tiantai Trio". Shide lived as a lay monk, and worked most of his life in the kitchen of Guoqing Temple. An apocryphal story relates how Shide received his name: Once, Fenggan was travelling between Guoqing Temple and the village of Tiantai, when at the redstone rock ridge called 'Red Wall' (赤城) he heard some crying. He investigated, and found a ten-year-old boy who had been abandoned by his parents; and picked him up and took him back to the temple, where the monks subsequently raised him.

Shide is referred to as Jittoku in Japanese.

is a zigzag-shaped paper streamer, often seen attached to shimenawa or tamagushi, and used in Shinto rituals. A popular ritual is using a haraegushi, or "lightning wand", named for the zig-zag shide paper that adorns the wand. A similar wand, used by miko for purification and blessing, is the gohei with two shide. A Shinto priest waves the haraegushi over a person, item, or newly bought property, such as a building or car. The wand is waved at a slow rhythmic pace, but with a little force so that the shide strips make a rustling noise on each pass of the wand. For new properties, a similar ritual known as jijin sai is performed with a haraegushi, an enclosed part of the land (enclosed by shimenawa), and sake, or ritually purified sake known as o-miki. The haraegushi has been used for centuries in Shinto ceremonies and has similarities in Ainu culture. In Ainu culture, a shaved willow branch called an inaw or inau closely resembles the Shinto haraegushi, and is used in similar blessing rituals.

Shide may refer to:

• Shide (monk), a Chinese Buddhist monk and poet
• Shide (Shinto) meaning the ziz-zag shaped paper streamer associated with Shintoism
• Shide, Isle of Wight, settlement on the Isle of Wight, England
• Dalian Shide F.C., a former Chinese football club
• Shide Group, a Chinese building supply company that owned Dalian Shide F.C.