《资治通鉴·宋纪·宋纪十二》
刘昶颇有学问，下笔成文，北魏很器重他，让他娶了公主，拜他为侍中、征南将军、驸马都尉，崐赐爵为丹杨王。
昶颇涉学，能属文。魏人重之，使尚公主，拜侍中、征南将军、驸马都尉，赐爵丹阳王。
Liu Chang was quite the scholar, and whatever he wrote came out as a fine piece of writing, and Northern Wei treated him with great regard, and let him marry a princess, and enfeoffed him as the Imperial Attendant, General Who Subdues the South, and Commissioner of the Imperial Horse, and gave him the title Duke of Danyang.