《旧唐书·列传·卷四十八》
开始，中举授婺州参军，任满将还乡，州吏赠送他万余张纸，杜暹只接受了一百张，其余全还给他们。
初举明经，补婺州参军，秩满将归，州吏以纸万余张以赠之，暹惟受一百，余悉还之。
At the beginning, he was appointed as Wuzhou's civil servant, and when his term expired, he returned to his hometown. The county officials gave him more than ten thousand sheets of paper, but Du Xi accepted only one hundred sheets and returned the rest to them.