According to media reports, there is a princess of the Sri Lankan royal family who has been living in China for historical reasons, and if she returns to Sri Lanka, she will be able to inherit the hundreds of millions of inheritances left behind, but she did not return to her homeland, but chose to stay in her "motherland" - China.
The princess, Xu Shiyin'e, was born in 1975 in a family in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and when she was a child, she liked to listen to her grandmother's stories. However, every time the grandmother told the family story, she was always reluctant to tell Xu Shiyin'e too much news, but said that her family came from a paradise, due to various accidents, she came here and began to take root here.
Xu Shiyin'e is not surnamed Xu, but surnamed Xu Shi. When she was studying at school, Xu Shiyin'e learned about the surnames of the hundred families, so she began to search for her surnames everywhere in the hundred family names, and found that there was no surname "Xu Shi" at all. Classmates would ask her curiously why she had this particular surname, and she couldn't say why, and her father only told her that "Xu Shi" was not a duplicate surname, and the rest of the news was silent.
It was not until Xu Shiyin'e grew up and her father wanted to go overseas to inherit the family business, that he finally decided to tell her the family secret, and asked Xu Shiyin'e to keep this secret and resolutely not tell outsiders. It was only then that Xu Shiyin'e realized that she was actually a princess of Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon).
The fate of Xu Shiyin'e and Ceylon also begins with the Ming Dynasty. Zheng He traveled to Sri Lanka twice, and the king of Sri Lanka wanted his son to go to the Ming Dynasty to meet the emperor, thus building a bridge of trade between the two countries.
Soon after, Sri Lankan Shizi came to China, and he deeply felt the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. After meeting the emperor, Setsuko intended to return to China, but there was a coup d'état in Sri Lanka at this time. Shizi sent several of his retinue to inquire about the news, but the retinue was captured by Shizi's uncle and severely tortured to tell them where Shizi was hiding, but the retinue was loyal to Shizi until death, and Shizi was disappointed to return to the country and stayed in Quanzhou.
In this way, Shizi began to live in Quanzhou with the surname of "Shi". Later, there was a man with the surname Xu in the family, so the family name became "Xu Shi".
Xu Shiyin'e originally planned to keep the family's secrets, but in 1996, Quanzhou archaeologist Liu Zhicheng inadvertently discovered a "family pit", which was studied as the tomb group of Sri Lankan Shizi. Xu Shiyin'e heard that archaeologists were going to study their family's ancestral graves, fearing that the ancestral tombs would be damaged, and after a long period of internal struggle, she finally stood up and revealed her identity.
The cultural relics department and relevant departments also confirmed that Xu Shiyin'e was indeed a princess of Sri Lanka, and also decided to respect Xu Shiyin'e's decision and restore the tombstones to their original state. The incident caused a sensation in Quanzhou, the media rushed to interview the princess, and Xu Shiyin'e patiently replied to everyone's questions.
In 2002, the people of Sri Lanka were very happy to learn that the prince of their country still had his descendants alive, so they immediately invited Xu Shiyin'e to visit Sri Lanka, where she was treated as a princess and the locals were very enthusiastic about her.
A year later, Xu Shiyin'e handed in a genealogy of her own family, hoping that the descendants of Sri Lankan Shizi would be reunited. After unremitting efforts, she finally found her descendants scattered everywhere, and they gathered together to celebrate each other.
In 2010, Sri Lanka invited Xu Shiyin'e to participate in the National Pavilion Day event, and the prime minister of Sri Lanka cordially received Xu Shiyin'e, and also invited her to return to Sri Lanka to become a princess and inherit the hundreds of millions of inheritance left by the family. But Xu Shiyin'e said that China is her hometown, because she lives in China with her familiar ancestors, and she has hometown feelings for China, which makes her unable to give up. In the end, she politely refused the kindness of the Sri Lankan prime minister, who also respected her intentions and no longer demanded it.
Now, Xu Shiyin'e has voluntarily become a "civilian ambassador of China and Sri Lanka", and even if she is not a princess, she is also contributing her part to the peaceful establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.