《梁书·列传·卷二十七》
因母亲去世离职，服丧超过礼仪，担忧他，亲手写信告诫开导他： 得知你近日的德行，哀伤困顿超过礼仪，又进食差不多没有一升，十分酸楚。
母忧去职，居丧过礼，昭明太子忧之，手书诫喻曰： 知比诸德，哀顿为过，又所进殆无一溢，甚以酸耿。
Resigned his office because of his mother's death, and was grief-stricken and unable to eat more than half a litre of food a day. The Emperor was worried about him, and wrote with his own hand a letter in which he said: I hear that these days you are overcome and exhausted by your grief, and that you are hardly eating a pint of food. My heart bleeds to think of it.