廣弘明集 2.26

2.26

In the Wei dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen was a sage Son of Heaven. At five years of age he received the abdication [of the throne], and at ten he assumed the imperial crown. In the eighteenth year of the Taihe reign era, he moved the capital to Luoyang. In the twentieth year, he changed the imperial surname to the Yuan clan. His literary works numbered more than a hundred pieces, excelling beyond antiquity. When he first ascended the throne, edicts and proclamations were drafted by officials; after Taihe, he personally wielded the brush for all of them. The earlier and later emperors could not match him, as shown in the edicts issued in the chapter on monastic conduct.