Zhu Changsheng (朱長生)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhu Changsheng as an administrator, diplomat, envoy, and official. This record brings together 9 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	Zhu Changsheng	朱長生	Zhū Chángshēng
Given	Changsheng	長生
Personal name	Zhu Changsheng	朱長生	Zhū Chángshēng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · weishu:093:s0001, weishu:093:s0067

Roles

Administrator
Diplomat
Envoy
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 高祖時使高車 · Western Interval: Start: AD 471 · End: AD 499
Explicit event contextual date · weishu:093:s0068, weishu:093:s0078

Career and standing

Label: administrator of Henei / 河內太守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · weishu:093:s0079
Status: captivity · Action: entered
Explicit · weishu:093:s0074

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Other Person Id: Avuzhiluo (阿伏至羅)
Explicit · weishu:093:s0068, weishu:093:s0069

References in the histories

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Book of Wei, Chapter 93Volume 87: Morality and Righteousness: Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou · 9 passages

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于什門段進石文德汲固王玄威婁提劉渴侯朱長生于提馬八龍門文愛晁清劉侯仁石祖興邵洪哲王榮世胡小虎孫道登李几張安祖王閭 Yu Shenmen, Duan Jin, Shi Wende, Ji Gu, Wang Xuanwei, Lou Ti, Liu Kehou, Zhu Changsheng, Yu Ti, Ma Balong, Men Wen'ai, Chao Qing, Liu Houran, Shi Zuxing, Shao Hongzhe, Wang Rongshi, Hu Xiaohu, Sun Daodeng, Li Ji, Zhang Anzu, and Wang Lü.

朱長生及于提，並代人也。 Zhu Changsheng and Yu Ti were both men of Dai.

高祖時，以長生為員外散騎常侍，與提俱使高車。 Under Emperor Xiaowen, Changsheng was appointed supernumerary attendant cavalier attendant-in-ordinary and, together with Yu Ti, was sent on embassy to the Gaoche.

至其庭，高車主阿伏至羅責長生等拜，長生拒之曰：「我天子使，安肯拜下土諸侯！」 At the Gaoche court their ruler Avuzhiluo demanded that Changsheng and his party bow. Changsheng refused: "I am an envoy of the Son of Heaven. How could I bow to a petty frontier lord?"

長生以金銀寶器奉之，至羅既受獻，長生曰：「為臣內附，宜盡臣禮，何得口云再拜而實不拜！」 Changsheng presented gold, silver, and precious vessels as tribute. Once Avuzhiluo had accepted them, Changsheng said, "As a subject who has submitted to the court, you ought to perform a subject's obeisance. How can you say you will bow twice and then not bow at all?"

奪長生等獻物，囚之叢石之中，兵脅之曰：「汝能為我臣則活，如其不降，殺汝！」 He confiscated their tribute gifts and imprisoned them among the rocks. Armed men threatened them: "Become my subjects and you shall live. Refuse, and you die."

長生與于提瞋目厲聲責之曰：「豈有天子使人拜汝夷，我寧為魏鬼，不為汝臣！」 Changsheng and Yu Ti glared and shouted their rebuke: "Shall an envoy of the Son of Heaven bow to you barbarians? I would rather be a ghost of Wei than your subject!"

從行者三十人皆降，至羅乃給以肉酪，惟長生與提不從，乃各分徙之。 All thirty of their attendants submitted, and Avuzhiluo gave them meat and curds. Only Changsheng and Yu Ti refused, so he had them separated and sent to different places of exile.

高祖以長生等守節遠同蘇武，甚嘉之，拜長生河內太守，于提隴西太守，並賜爵五等男。 Emperor Xiaowen held that in keeping their integrity Changsheng and his companions rivaled Su Wu of old, and he greatly honored them. Changsheng was appointed administrator of Henei, Yu Ti administrator of Longxi, and both were enfeoffed as fifth-rank barons.