《资治通鉴·汉纪·汉纪三十》
很多观察云气的人都说出现了大兴土木的征象；九月甲申，王莽在长安城南兴建皇家九座祭庙。其中黄帝庙东西南北四方各长四十丈，高十七丈，其它祭庙只有黄帝庙的一半，规模十分宏伟。
望气为数者多言有土功象；九月，甲申，莽起九庙于长安城南，黄帝庙方四十丈，高十七丈，馀庙半之，制度甚盛。
Many people who watched the clouds said that it was an omen of a massive building project. On the Jia Shen day of the ninth month, Wang Mang started to construct nine family shrines on the south of Chang’an City. Among these shrines, the Huang Di Shrine was the largest, measuring 40 zhang long and 17 zhang high in all four directions. The other shrines were about half the size of the Huang Di Shrine.