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Zhu Changsheng was an envoy and Administrator.
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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
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.