Overview
Chang Jun was an envoy.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
Career and standing
Bearer of Righteousness Commandant 秉義尉
AD 610 大業六年 · Appointed
agricultural intendant (tuntian zhushi) 屯田主事
Held
silk and goods rewards 帛各百匹…物二百段
Received
Places and affiliations
- Polity Sui 隋 · Relation Served
Works and attributed material
- Speech · Addressee · Mode named-source-report Source Work Unknown · Brahmins at lodge addressed Chang Jun
- Speech · Addressee · With Lifuduosai (利富多塞) · Units s0106, s0107
Events and relationships
Petitioned and went to Chitu
Presented edict at Chitu court
Returned via Jiaozhi with Nayage
Sailed from Nanhai to Chitu
AD 607 其年十月 · Travel · Envoy
- Relation Colleague of · Person Wang Junzheng (王君政)
References in the histories
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Book of Sui, Chapter 82Volume 82 Biographies 47: The Nanman · 13 passages
大業三年，屯田主事常駿、虞部主事王君政等請使赤土。
In Daye year 3, agricultural intendant Chang Jun and supplies officer Wang Junzheng petitioned to go to Chitu.
帝大悅，賜駿等帛各百匹，時服一襲而遣。
The emperor was delighted, granted each of them a hundred bolts of silk and a suit of court robes, and dispatched them.
其年十月，駿等自南海郡乘舟，晝夜二旬，每值便風。
In the tenth month of that year they set sail from Nanhai Commandery and, with fair winds whenever they arose, made the passage in twenty days and nights.
其王遣婆羅門鳩摩羅以舶三十艘來迎，吹蠡擊鼓，以樂隋使，進金鎖以纜駿船。
The king sent the Brahmin Jumoluo with thirty ships to meet them. Conches blared and drums thundered in salute to the Sui mission, and golden chains were offered to berth Chang Jun's ship.
月餘，至其都，王遣其子那邪迦請與駿等禮見。
After more than a month they arrived at the capital, where the king sent his son Nayage to invite Chang Jun and his party to an audience.
駿等奉詔書上閣，王以下皆坐。
Chang Jun and his party presented the edict in the upper hall; the king and his court were seated.
宣詔訖，引駿等坐，奏天竺樂。
After the edict was read they seated Chang Jun and his companions and performed music from India.
事畢，駿等還館，又遣婆羅門就館送食，以草葉為盤，其大方丈。
When the ceremony ended the envoys returned to their quarters, where Brahmins brought food on leaf platters each about ten feet square.
因謂駿曰：「今是大國中人，非復赤土國矣。
They told Chang Jun, "You are guests of a great empire now, no longer mere visitors from Red Earth.
後數日，請駿等入宴，儀衞導從如初見之禮。
A few days later they invited the envoys to a banquet with the same guard and ceremonial escort as at the first audience.
延駿升牀，從者坐於地席，各以金鍾置酒，女樂迭奏，禮遺甚厚。
Chang Jun was invited onto the couch while his attendants sat on mats below, each with a golden cup of wine; female musicians played in succession, and the hospitality was lavish.
尋遣那邪迦隨駿貢方物，并獻金芙蓉冠、龍腦香。
Soon Nayage was sent to accompany Chang Jun home with tribute goods, including a golden lotus crown and dragon-brain camphor.
駿以六年春與那邪迦於弘農謁，帝大悅，賜駿等物二百段，俱授秉義尉，那邪迦等官賞各有差。
In the spring of Daye year 6 Chang Jun and Nayage were received at Hongnong. The emperor was delighted, granted two hundred lengths of goods to the envoys, appointed them all Bearer of Righteousness Commandants, and rewarded Nayage and his party with offices of varying rank.