《旧唐书·列传·卷十三》
以致像梁武帝萧衍对佛教竭尽心力，梁简文帝萧纲对佛门专心致志，花光国库钱财来供给和尚尼姑，征尽民间劳役来修建佛塔寺院。
至若梁武穷心于释氏，简文锐意于法门，倾帑藏以给僧祗，殚人力以供塔庙。
So that Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, devoted all his energy to Buddhism, and Xiao Gang, Emperor Jianwen of Liang, devoted himself to Buddhism, spending all the money in the treasury to provide for monks and nuns, and exhausting the labor of the people to build Buddhist temples and pagodas.