《晋书·志·第十六章》
就算使当今的沙砾化为南方出产的铜，瓦石变成美玉，假如百姓渴了而没有喝的，饿了而没有吃的，即便是伏羲的纯粹明德，唐尧、虞舜之文教英明，仍然是不能够用来安定萧墙以内的地方的。
就使当今沙砾化为南金，瓦石变为和玉，使百姓渴无所饮，饥无所食，虽皇羲之纯德，唐虞之文明，犹不能以保萧墙之内也。
Even if the sand of today is turned into copper produced in the south, and the tiles and stones are turned into jade, if the people are thirsty and have no water to drink, and hungry and have no food to eat, even the pure morality of Fuxi and the literary and martial arts of Yao and Shun will not be able to stabilize the place within the Xiaoxiang wall.