《宋史·列传·卷一百六十》
刘宰设置义仓，创立义役，三次做粥饭给挨饿的人吃，从冬天到夏天，一天有一万多人吃他给的粥饭，柴、米、衣服、药、棺椁、寿衣等物品，没有向他请求而得不到的。
置义仓，创义役，三为粥以与饿者，自冬徂夏，日食凡万余人，薪粟、衣纩、药饵、棺衾之类，靡谒不获。
Liu Zai set up granaries, started up voluntary service, and set up porridge stalls three times to provide food for the hungry. From winter to summer, more than ten thousand people ate his porridge every day. Firewood, rice, clothing, medicine, coffins, and burial clothes—there was nothing he would not provide for those who asked him.