She is the proprietress of an antique shop in southern Fujian and has become a fugitive princess of Sri Lanka, and a chance discovery by archaeologists has uncovered a secret that her family has kept for more than 500 years.
She is Xu Shiyin'e, and after her identity was made public, she refused the invitation to return to Sri Lanka to inherit hundreds of millions of family properties, insisting that she was a Chinese, guarding her small shop and living an ordinary and happy life.
What kind of secret does she have? What made her choose to stay in China? In this issue, Ziya Children's Fun Character Ji will take you to meet this legendary character - Xu Shiyin'e.
Family secrets, hidden for a hundred years
Xu Shiyin'e was born in Quanzhou, Fujian Province in 1975, and when she was a child, she often accompanied her elderly great-grandmother.
Every night before going to bed, she always pestered her great-grandmother to tell stories, and her great-grandmother told very devotedly, as if many pictures appeared in front of us, our ancestors came from a mysterious country, we came from the sea to live here, we still have the family family pit...
Sometimes, the young Xu Shiyin'e would be confused and often ask her great-grandmother, ah, what is that? But every time the old man would talk about him left and right, Xiao Yin'e listened to these only as bedtime stories.
As time passed, Xu Shiyin'e grew up, and since her great-grandmother died, she has not heard these things from her family.
But Xiao Yin'e always remembered these stories in her heart, and she was also curious about whether those stories about her life were true, and the family was silent, so that she had no way of knowing.
One day, Xu Shiyin'e's classmate asked her why your name was so awkward, and she also wanted to know why her surname was Xu Shi, so she went home and asked her family.
She didn't expect to get a stern reprimand from her father, don't ask so much children, this is not a compound surname, Xu and Shi are both surnames of our family, just know.
Xu Shiyin'e originally thought that it would take a long time to know all the secrets of her life.
Unexpectedly, at the age of 16, Xu's father wanted to move to Hong Kong to inherit the family business, and Xu Shiyin'e, as the eldest daughter, wanted to stay in Quanzhou to guard the ancestral property, so the family decided to tell her her true life in advance, and she finally solved her inner doubts for so many years.
It all started more than 500 years ago, when the Ming Dynasty sent Zheng He to the West and passed through the mysterious ancient Ceylon, Zheng He saw this strange scenery and decided to stay for a few days.
Later, when preparing to return, the young prince of ancient Ceylon, Seliba Jiaoja, was very curious about the China described by Zheng He, so in 1429 he came to China with a large number of jewels with Zheng He's fleet.
As an envoy, after visiting China for a few days, the little prince was ready to leave for China to tell the people what he had seen and heard here. But no one expected that an accident happened.
When the prince learned that his cousin had staged a coup d'état in his country, succeeded in usurping the throne and killed his family, he knew that if he returned home, he would be throwing himself into the net.
Therefore, the prince was sad and indignant, but he was very clear about his current situation and decided to stay in China for a long time. The peace and comfort of China made the prince gradually forget revenge, and he got used to Chinese life, married a wife and had children, and completely stayed in China to settle.
Archaeological discoveries, secrets revealed
Through the vicissitudes of the sea and generations of multiplication, the family gradually took root in Quanzhou, China, but they will also tell their descendants where they came from.
Later, in Xu Shiyin'e's mother's generation, because there was no man in the family, they recruited a man surnamed Xu into the family, and the children they gave birth to later took the surname Xu Shi of the two people to take their names.
This is also the origin of the surname that Xu Shiyin'e has been curious about back then.
After learning this story, Xu Shiyin'e was shocked, and before her father left, he repeatedly told her not to mention this to others.
So, in the days that followed, Xu Shiyin'e lived as usual, running a vegetarian restaurant and an antique shop on Tumen Street in Quanzhou, which was very low-key. What she didn't expect was that an unexpected archaeological discovery shattered everything that was calm.
In 1996, Liu Zhicheng of the Quanzhou Overseas Transportation History Museum, because of his love of archaeology, often went to explore various places, and during the holidays, he came to the mountains in the eastern suburbs of Quanzhou to wander and accidentally found a stone slab.
He peeled off the weeds and looked at it, and the three words of the family pit were printed on the stone slab, and with his senior experience, he realized that this was most likely the ancestral tomb of the prince of Ceylon.
Therefore, Liu Zhicheng asked the relevant departments and began to clean up the Saga Pit, hoping to find more information and fill the gaps in the relevant history.
As the discovery deepened, Liu Zhicheng's team gained more and more, they believed that the descendants of Ceylon were near Quanzhou, and once the news came out, it caused heated discussions and began to look for the descendants of the prince.
But the news that these media rushed to report made Xu Shiyin'e feel like a pins and needles. From time to time, she heard the discussions of the people around her, which made her tremble, and later learned that the archaeologists had moved her ancestral tomb, which made her even more frightened into a cold sweat.
Xu Shiyin'e's husband didn't know what happened to his wife these days, it turned out that she was afraid of leaking the secret, and even her husband did not disclose half a word after marriage, and she was struggling in her heart, but finally told her husband about it.
Xu Shiyin'e's husband also works in the Haijiao Pavilion, and he didn't expect that his colleagues would accidentally pick up such a big thing in his own family.
Decades ago, during the turbulent period of war, the family was afraid that this life would provoke the upper body, so let the younger generations not disclose a word to the outside world.
But Xu Shiyin'e saw that the current era was very peaceful, and this matter was getting bigger and bigger, so she decided to go against the ancestral precept and make this secret public to the world.
Give up wealth and return to the ordinary
Xu Shiyin'e took the initiative to call the Haijiao Museum, explaining her life history, hoping to stop the destruction of the ancestral tomb.
When the Quanzhou Haijiao Museum saw that her information was correct with what she had recorded, she quickly confirmed Xu Shiyin'e's identity.
It turned out that the descendants of Ceylon who were hidden in the city and made people easy to find were actually the wives of their colleagues, which surprised the whole unit.
After Xu Shiyin'e's life was reported by the official media, it also caused quite a stir in the country. Her neighbors and friends were even more surprised that this ordinary Minnan fellow was actually a princess of Ceylon.
People were curious to ask her what was the difference, and she showed people the pinna holes that only Ceylon people have.
Ancient Ceylon is now Sri Lanka, and when the local government learned of this, it hoped that the royal princess could return to her hometown, so it invited Xu Shiyin'e.
Curious about her hometown in her blood, she embarked on a journey to Sri Lanka on behalf of Quanzhou with her husband and others.
The local government attached great importance to the arrival of Xu Shiyin'e, a descendant of the royal family, and prepared a grand welcome ceremony for her in advance, and when Xu Shiyin'e set foot on the homeland in her blood, she felt very cordial and warmly welcomed her, which made her infected by the happy atmosphere.
The Sri Lankan government gave Xu Shiyin'e and his wife the highest standard of hospitality and courtesy, which overwhelmed the couple who have been ordinary people for more than 20 years.
After returning to Quanzhou, Xu Shiyin'e, who had ended her family visit trip, did many things. She will first donate the family tree, and with the help of everyone, find many descendants of the family and gather in Quanzhou.
Later, Xu Shiyin'e became the ambassador of peace between China and Sri Lanka, constantly contributing to the friendship between the two countries.
In 2010, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka talked with Xu Shiyin'e and his wife for a long time, hoping that they would return to Sri Lanka, enjoy royal treatment, and inherit hundreds of millions of family properties, but Xu Shiyin'e refused.
She believes that she was born in China, grew up in China, and China is her home, and also said that she will not forget her blood and ancestors, but she will also stay in China and take root in China like her ancestors' choice.
As time passed, Xu Shiyin'e's life returned to the initial calm, staying in her small shop every day to do business, and going home to eat and walk with her husband and children after closing, and the family was happy.
Xu Shiyin'e felt that such a peaceful, full and beautiful life was no different from the luxurious aristocratic life. For Xu Shiyin'e, although prosperity is good, this peace of mind is my hometown.
After reading Xu Shiyin'e's legendary story, what do you think? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss.
If you like my content, please follow me, like me and retweet, every encouragement from you will be my motivation to make better content.