《文心雕龙·夸饰》
但这些作品在描绘山海的状貌和宫殿的形势上，都能充分表现出那种宏伟高大、光辉灿烂的壮观；色彩的鲜艳有如融融的火光，楼台的高耸富有飞动的气势：所有这些，都是依仗夸张手法来表现出事物的形状，借助修饰文采来显示事物的奇特。
至如气貌山海，体势宫殿，嵯峨揭业，熠耀焜煌之状，光采炜炜而欲然，声貌岌岌其将动矣。莫不因夸以成状，沿饰而得奇也。
However, in depicting the appearance of mountains and seas and the situation of palaces, these works can fully show the magnificent and brilliant spectacle; The bright colors are like the radiant fire, and the high towers have a sense of flying: all these rely on the exaggeration technique to show the shape of things and the rhetoric to show the strangeness of things.