《明史·志·卷二十四》
不久亲自撰写祝文，重新订立仪程，改在惊垫节，礼仪比大祀礼稍微降低，供献的帛减少十分之一，不设从坛，不燔柴，写为定制。
寻亲制祝文，更定仪注，改用惊蛰节，礼视大祀少杀。帛减十一，不设从坛，不燔柴，著为定式。
Not long after, he personally wrote the sacrificial text, redrafted the procedures, changed it to the Jie Tan Festival, made the rituals slightly less formal than those of the Great Ancestral Temple, reduced the offered silks by a tenth, did not set up an altar for other temples, and did not burn firewood. This was drafted as a regulation.