《资治通鉴·梁纪·梁纪十一》
徐的文章词赋，艳丽轻靡，东宫文人都模仿他的风格，当时人们称之为 宫体 。
摛文体轻丽，春坊尽学之，时人谓之宫体。
Xu's prose and fu poems were beautiful but frivolous, and all the Eastern Palace literati imitated his style, in what people at the time called "the Palace Style."