"Tasha Xing Waiting for the Plum Remnant": "Waiting for the Plum Remnant, The Creek Bridge Willow Thin." Grass lavender wind warm shake signs. The distance from sorrow is getting far and farther away, and the winding is constantly like spring water. ”
Hometown is a period of sorrow, always entrusting people's thoughts. People, things, and things that you have been exposed to since childhood will become a love vendetta that people who leave home always recall or feel sad or healed. Ouyang Xiu saw that the grass and trees were still homesick, and how could people who had left home avoid it. Chinese wherever he goes, he will think of his hometown and the place where he grew up.
People are always emotional animals, and after staying in a place for a long time, they will always have some reluctance. The choice some people make is largely limited by whether their hometown can support their dreams. There is a princess of the Ceylon royal family who has been living in China for historical reasons, and if she returns to China, she can inherit a rich inheritance, but she chooses to refuse, and even frankly says that China is her hometown.
Hometown is a place where a person first settles down, but for various reasons, there are always people who face the choice of leaving their hometown. Many people have fantasies about their own lives, thinking that they may be a celebrity who has moved here, but if they do climb this level of relationship, many people will be proud and even forget themselves. But there is a woman in the southern Fujian region of China who is a down-to-earth aristocratic descendant, as a Chinese lives in the city every day, behind the ordinary life, the hidden identity is the princess of the overseas royal family.
Her name is Xu Shi Yin'e, she is not surnamed Xu, but Xu Shi, this surname is not only unfamiliar to everyone, but also not recorded in the hundred family names, indicating that her family name appeared after the compilation of the hundred family names, but this also does not show whether she is Chinese in the end. When she was a child, many people would ask her curiously why she had this special surname, and she could not say why, and as she grew up, she was like ordinary people, married and had children, and married and taught her children. She runs a restaurant in the ancient alleys of Quanzhou, her husband works at the "Haijiaoguan", her children study at school, and the family's life is orderly.
One day in 1966, Liu Zhicheng found a stone slab hidden behind the grass on Quanzhou's Qingquan Mountain, which was very special, and as a museum staff, his intuition told himself that this was not an ordinary thing. So he pulled the grass apart and carefully observed the tombstone, which was impressively written with the words "Family Pit", realized that the situation was special, he immediately called his colleagues to confirm, and finally under their repeated observation, he found that it was likely to be the tomb of the prince of Ceylon.
But why were the princes of Ceylon buried in Quanzhou, China? This goes back to the Ming Dynasty in 1429. At that time, Zheng He went to the West to exchange cultural experience with many overseas countries, one of which was Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. When Zheng He returned to China, the king sent the prince of Ceylon with him, hoping that he would increase his knowledge and go to China to learn the style of a great power. Zheng He, as a friendly ambassador, naturally did not refuse, and enthusiastically brought the Prince of Ceylon to China, where he not only met the emperor and gave gifts to each other, but also got the opportunity to travel around China and see the customs and customs of China.
After traveling through most of China, with the porcelain given to him by the emperor and the items he had bought at home, he prepared to board a ship from Quanzhou to return home. But at this moment, a bad news came that his country had suffered a coup d'état, and his father as king had been killed by his usurper cousin, none of the brothers and sisters survived, and Ceylon was no longer his family's domain. At this time, when he went back, he was throwing himself into the net, and the brutal usurper had laid out a net of heaven and earth waiting for him to go back and kill him together.
In desperation, the prince of Ceylon had to stay in China, and after obtaining the emperor's permission, he also found a wife for him and let them live in Quanzhou together. From that time on, the prince of Ceylon began to live a careful low-key life, fearing that if he was too high-profile, when the Assassins from Ceylon would easily find him, the plan to leave the country and seek perfection would be shattered in one fell swoop, and he would never be able to return to Ceylon to regain his country.
In order to better hide himself, he also changed his name, and after consulting with his wife, he decided that they would be surnamed "Shi" in the future, as the first word of his name, he still did not give up, so he took it as his surname, hoping that future generations would have traces to follow. But Xu Shiyin'e is surnamed Xu Shi, why is this? It turned out that one of the descendants of the prince of Ceylon did not give birth to a son, and the daughter could only find a man to enter their family, and the children would erase all traces of their "family" with the father's surname Xu, and simply surnamed "Xu Shi", so that the name of the later Xu Shi Yin'e appeared.
But their family has always been very low-key, never taking the initiative to disclose their identity to the outside world, and will also take the initiative to hide it. Xu Shiyin'e, who only learned these things when she grew up, also obeyed the wishes of her ancestors and never mentioned to others that she was a descendant of the prince of Ceylon, and others did not know.
However, the past of the prince of Ceylon was discovered by the world in the generation of Xu Shiyin'e, and the archaeological team removed his tombstone on the grounds of protection, and also wanted to dig up the tomb of the prince of Ceylon for archaeological research. Xu Shiyin'e saw that her ancestral grave was about to be unable to be saved, and she could no longer calmly hide it. To protect the tombs of her ancestors, she revealed her identity to the archaeological team, telling them that she was a descendant of the prince of Ceylon and that she was not allowed to destroy them. Archaeologists who were already looking for the descendants of the prince of Ceylon were overjoyed to find out in many ways that she had not lied.
The people of Sri Lanka were very happy to learn that the prince of their country still had his descendants alive, and immediately invited Xu Shiyin'e to visit Sri Lanka and invited her to stay. Xu Shiyin'e was treated as a princess there, and people also had the heart to take her home, but she refused their hospitality and chose to return to China and be an ordinary Chinese, after all, China is her hometown.
Later, when Xu Shiyin'e returned to China, she would only occasionally return to Sri Lanka for a walk, and the people of her hometown would still warmly entertain her. She also planted the "Evergreen Tree of Sino-Sri Lankan Friendship" in Sri Lanka, a sapling that grows in the same land as the saplings planted by the presidents of other countries and Sri Lanka. In the end, she also became a "Civilian Ambassador of China and Sri Lanka" because of her special status. But none of this affected her return to Quanzhou to continue her life, she still lived the same life as her family, as an ordinary Chinese citizen, working with her own hands to create a better life.
Xu Shiyin'e said that her ancestors chose to live in China and buried all that in their hearts, and she should also follow her ancestors' wishes and guard her family here. She also found many "descendants of the family" scattered overseas, and she wanted to stay in Quanzhou to have a person to look for when they returned to worship their ancestors. Xu Shiyin'e's mentality is something that many people do not have, because she lives in China with her familiar ancestors, and she has feelings for her hometown in China, where she has left deep feelings that she cannot give up.
She did not choose to leave China because she was a royal princess of Ceylon, and refused to return to Sri Lanka to inherit the inheritance, because in her bones she already loved the land of China, which, as she said, was her hometown. Therefore, in the face of the glorious and rich princess status, she was not moved, because she knew that her body was not only flowing with the blood of the prince of Ceylon, but also the blood of Chinese, and this land was the homeland that nourished her.
"Being a stranger in a foreign land alone, thinking of my relatives every festive season." Human homesickness always comes into being at the moment of leaving home. And Xu Shiyin'e grew up in China, this is the home she can never give up, will be deeply rooted here, is the embodiment of the patriotic feelings she has buried in the past few decades. This is more than many other people who forget to go home as soon as they go abroad, and what she has made is an example that is worth learning.
Resources:
"Tasha Waiting for the Plum Remnant"
"September 9th Remembers the Shandong Brothers"