China has thousands of years of burial customs, and it has always been believed that ancestral graves affect the fate of future generations, so special attention is paid to ancestral tombs. Many people also take revenge by digging up ancestral graves, reflecting the importance of ancestral graves to Chinese from the side. Today, the woman that Xiaobian wants to introduce was originally just an ordinary person, because the ancestral grave was dug up to get justice, but unexpectedly found that she was actually an overseas princess. And listen to the editor in detail.
There is a group of tombs on qingyuan mountain in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, which was originally covered by a barren grass, on which were written the words "Shijia Pit". One day, the tomb group was discovered by a staff member named Liu Zhi of the Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum. With his many years of work experience and familiarity with overseas and Quanzhou county records, he realized that this was probably the tomb of the prince of Ceylon recorded in the History of Ming.
Just when the experts began to excavate the ancient tomb, a woman named Xu Shiyin'e, who lived in minnan, resolutely stopped their behavior and angrily rebuked: "Shijia Pit" is my family's ancestral grave, and it must not be dug. With the appearance of this woman, the "true identity" of this ancient tomb has been completely revealed! It is not the tomb of an ordinary person in the Ming Dynasty, but the tomb of a foreign prince during the Ming Dynasty. Through the cultural relics excavated in the "Family Pit" and the "Genealogy of the Family", it also confirms the brilliant family history of Xu Shiyin'e, and a history that has been buried for more than 500 years is slowly presented.
During the Ming Dynasty, the king of the ancient Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) sent his prince Shilipa Jiaojia to visit the Ming Dynasty, and the prince came with Zheng He. At that time, the ceylon state was still a small island country, the land area was not large, in order to rely on the Ming Dynasty, to get the protection of the Ming Dynasty, Shiliba Jiaoya brought a lot of rare treasures. In return, the Ming Emperor also presented pearl agate. However, on the way home, the prince and his party were passing through The Thorn Tong (present-day Quanzhou, China), when they suddenly received information from spies that the domestic regime had changed, and if the prince returned to China, his life would be in danger. As a last resort, Shilipa Jiaojia had to live here and take "Shi" as the Han surname.
But why is it that the prince's surname is Shi, and his descendants are also surnamed Shi, but the descendant Xu Shi Yin'e is surnamed Xu Shi? In fact, because her grandmother did not give birth to a boy, she let a surname Xu into their family, combined the surnames on both sides, and there was "Xu Shi", and she was the descendant of this prince, that is, the orthodox Ceylon princess.
In 2002, Princess Xu Shiyin'e of Ceylon was invited to return to her native Sri Lanka for the first time. The people of Sri Lanka received her with the highest courtesy and the President personally received her. Her appearance across Sri Lanka set off a "princess fever". Xu Shiyin'e not only fulfilled the last wishes of her ancestors for hundreds of years, but also became a friendly spokesperson for China and Sri Lanka. There are now nearly 40 descendants of Ceylon princes surnamed "Xu Shi" or "Shi" on the coast of southern Fujian, which confirms the special friendship between Quanzhou Thorn Tong Port and the ancient Ceylon Kingdom for 500 years.