Changjiang (長降) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Changjiang as an aristocrat and royal family member. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Changjiang	長降	Zhangjiang
Personal name	Chang	長
Personal name	Changjiang	長降	Zhangjiang
Descriptive kinship	crown prince	太子
Title	Marquis of Ji	幾侯

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Strongly inferred · shiji:115:s0027

Roles

Aristocrat
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元封二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: BC 109
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:115:s0011, shiji:115:s0027, shiji:115:s0028, shiji:115:s0029
Source Date: Text: 元封三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: BC 108
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:115:s0052, shiji:115:s0054, shiji:115:s0055

Family

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Child of Ugeo (右渠)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: crown prince / 太子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Title: Marquis of Ji / 幾侯 · Action: enfeoffed
Explicit · shiji:115:s0055
Title: Marquis of Ji / 幾侯 · Action: held
Explicit · shiji:115:s0055

Places and affiliations

Label: Han / 漢 · Relation: surrendered-to
Explicit · shiji:115:s0054
Label: Joseon / 朝鮮 · Relation: royal-of
Explicit · shiji:115:s0027, shiji:115:s0054

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy-prince · Action: sent-to-apologize-then-withdrew · Place: Pae River / 浿水
Explicit · shiji:115:s0027, shiji:115:s0028, shiji:115:s0029
Kind: diplomatic · Role: surrenderer · Action: surrendered · Other Person Id: Xun Zhi (荀彘)
Explicit · shiji:115:s0054

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 115Treatise on Korea · 6 passages

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遣太子入謝，獻馬五千匹，及饋軍糧。 He sent his crown prince to make a formal apology, presenting five thousand horses and supplies of grain for the army.

人眾萬餘，持兵，方渡浿水，使者及左將軍疑其為變，謂太子已服降，宜命人毋持兵。 The prince arrived with a retinue of more than ten thousand men, all bearing arms, and was about to cross the Pae River. The envoy and the Left General, suspecting a ruse, told the prince that since he had already agreed to surrender, his people should lay down their weapons.

太子亦疑使者左將軍詐殺之，遂不渡浿水，復引歸。 The crown prince, in turn, suspected that the envoy and the Left General were plotting to kill him, and so refused to cross the Pae River. He led his men back the way they had come.

天子曰將率不能，前（及）［乃］使衛山諭降右渠，右渠遣太子，山使不能剸決，與左將軍計相誤，卒沮約。 The Son of Heaven declared that the commanders could not advance, and then sent Wei Shan to negotiate Ugeo's surrender. Ugeo dispatched his crown prince in response, but Wei Shan failed to handle the matter decisively; his actions clashed with the Left General's plans, and in the end the agreement fell through.

左將軍使右渠子長降、相路人之子最告諭其民，誅成巳，以故遂定朝鮮，為四郡。 The Left General had Ugeo's son, Changjiang, surrender and had Lu Ren's son, Zui, issue a proclamation to the people. He executed Cheng Ji, and with this, Joseon was at last pacified and divided into four commanderies.

封參為澅清侯，陰為荻苴侯，唊為平州侯，長［降］為幾侯。 Shen was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Huaqing, Han Yin as the Marquis of Diqu, Wang Xia as the Marquis of Pingzhou, and Chang as the Marquis of Ji.