《南史·列传·卷七十六》
弘景从小操行异于常人，四五岁时，就经常用荻干作笔，在灰上划着学写字。
幼有异操，年四五岁，恒以荻爲笔，画灰中学书。
Hongjing showed unusual behavior since childhood. When he was four or five, he often used a reed stalk as a pen and wrote on the ash to practice writing.