《太平广记·卷四百一十三·草木八》
唐朝开成元年春天，段成式修行里思第书斋前，有几棵枯紫荆被虫子咬折，因此就伐掉了，留下了一尺多高的树茬子。
唐开成元年春，段成式修行里思第书斋前，有枯紫荆数株蠹折，因伐之，余尺许。
In the spring of the first year of the Tang Dynasty's Kaicheng reign, in front of Duan Chengshi's Xiushili study, several withered paulownia trees were gnawed by insects and felled, leaving stumps over a foot high.