《汉书·志·郊祀志下》
刘向答道： 平民人家尚且不想断绝继嗣所传的祠庙，何况对于国家的神宝旧时呢！
对曰： 家人尚不欲绝种祠，况于国之神宝旧畤！
Liu Xiang replied: “Even ordinary people would be loath to discontinue rites passed down to them from their ancestors. How much more so for the state’s ancestral shrines!