A "Cinderella" from Fujian revealed a 500-year-old secret and transformed into a princess of Ceylon. What happened next?

The world is unpredictable, and many times we don’t know what will happen the next day. People around us, relatives, friends, family, etc. who should be very close, may also There are some unknown secrets, and guarding this secret is their mission.

There is such an ordinary woman in Quanzhou, Fujian. Like ordinary people, she lives an ordinary but happy and stable life, guarding a small restaurant, raising her husband and raising children.

Originally, she thought she could live an ordinary life like this, but unexpectedly, the discovery of the "family trap" changed her life. She is Xu Shiyin'e.

"Shijia Pit" was discovered in Quanzhou, Fujian

In 1996, a staff member of the Maritime Administration accidentally discovered a piece of stone inscribed with "Shijia Pit" in Dongyue Mountain, Quanzhou This slate seemed to be old, and then he found about five similar slates around. He felt something was wrong, so he quickly reported it to his superiors.

After on-site inspections by professionals and archaeologists, it was discovered that this may be the cemetery of a Ceylon prince.

So in 2000, relevant professionals from Sri Lanka also came to inspect and found that in addition to these engraved stone slabs, there was also a pair of unique stone lions in front of the ancient tomb. The carving style was exactly that of Ceylon. All stone carving styles in China.

The snake-shaped pattern carved on a table in the ancient tomb is a typical totem of Ceylon. Judging from various evidences, this "Aristocratic Pit" is the cemetery of Prince Ceylon!

The ancestor of this Ceylon prince's Shi family is the king of Ceylon, Xilipa Jiaochila. It is speculated that he led a mission to visit the Ming Dynasty during the Ming Dynasty and stayed here for some reason.

According to research reports, there are records in the "History of the Ming Dynasty" that in 1459 AD, when the Prince of Ceylon left Quanzhou to board a ship to return home, sudden changes occurred in Ceylon. According to that time News was received that the cousin of the Prince of Ceylon had killed the prince's family and seized the throne.

As the saying goes, if you keep the green hills, you won’t have to worry about running out of firewood. In order to save his life, Prince Ceylon, who was supposed to return home, got off the ship and lived incognito in Quanzhou.

Because the first character of his name is homophonic with the Chinese character "世", he gave himself a Chinese name of Shi, got married, had children, and lived in Quanzhou, Fujian, China.

Ceylon is now Sri Lanka. In order to protect the ancient tombs and for the sake of friendly diplomacy between China and Sri Lanka, Shijiakeng has become a key cultural relic protection unit in Quanzhou, and the tombstones have also been protected and relocated. Walk.

As soon as the news came out, Xu Shiyin'e, who was just an ordinary woman, couldn't sit still. In order to protect the cemetery from being moved, she did not hesitate to violate her ancestral precepts and revealed a guardianship to everyone. Five hundred years of secrets.

Cinderella becomes Princess Ceylon

Xu Shiyin'e was born in 1975 and grew up in Quanzhou, Fujian. She opened a restaurant and an antique shop on the street. Her husband is A staff member of the Quanzhou Maritime Administration, she lives an ordinary and peaceful life with her husband and children.

However, the local government was worried that the tombs would be stolen, so they moved all the more than 20 tombstones found. This move of the government made Xu Shiyin'e very uneasy because it was an offense against the people of southern Fujian. Big taboo.

The ancestral graves in her family were to be moved. Xu Shiyin'e couldn't sleep at night, so she had to reveal her life experience to her husband.

I originally wanted to ask my husband to help communicate with the boss, but she was afraid of delaying the opportunity. The anxious Xu Shiyin'e had to call the Customs and Excise Department and tell them her identity, just because she didn't want to. Seeing the destruction of ancestral graves.

This news shocked everyone and doubted its authenticity.

It is said that Xu Shi's surname "Xu Shi" is not a compound surname, but because there were no sons in the family of Yin'e's great-great-grandmother's generation, so she hired a man named Xu to marry her. According to Chinese custom, it is the man's surname that is inherited by future generations, so the surname Xu and the surname Shi were combined.

Because of the changes that China experienced in the 1970s, I was afraid that this overseas relationship would be discovered and implicated, so the secrets of the family were hidden and dusted in every family. In people's hearts, until now, Xu Shiyin'e also violated the ancestral precepts out of helplessness.

In order to prove that what he said was true, Xu Shiyin'e provided the relevant staff of the Maritime Affairs Bureau with the "Aristocratic Family Genealogy". These contents are consistent with the family history of the aristocratic family recorded in "Quanzhou Prefecture Chronicles" That's right.

Not only that, Xu Shiyin'e also showed them a small hole in the left auricle that every descendant of the Ceylon prince was born with.

After several rounds of verification by Sri Lankan government officials and archaeologists, the identity of Xu Shiyin'e was finally determined. After confirming the identity, the "Princess of Ceylon" was invited to return to Sri Lanka to see it. A look at her hometown.

For Xu Shiyin'e, this must be very exciting. One is that the secret of the ancestors 500 years ago and the secret that the family has kept for so many years and cannot be told to others is finally known. , that feeling of relief and relaxation, firstly, I can finally go back to the place where my ancestors lived and see what my original hometown looked like!

So Xu Shiyin'e, Wang Lianmao, director of the Quanzhou Maritime Affairs Bureau, and others formed a Quanzhou delegation and landed on the land of their hometown. Here, Xu Shiyin'e enjoyed the highest treatment in Sri Lanka, and someone made careful arrangements for her trip. She was accompanied by government officials every day, traveled in top-notch luxury cars, and was escorted by multiple police cars.

At that time, there were a lot of reports about the return of the "Princess of Ceylon" every day, which made Xu Shiyin'e and his wife a little flattered.

China-Sri Lanka Civilian Ambassador

Even the secrets from five hundred years ago cannot be hidden, because of the discovery of the family pit and because Xu Shiyin'e was afraid that his ancestral graves would be moved. The secret of the Shi family was finally revealed to the world.

The relationship between Ceylon and China can be traced back to Zheng He’s voyages to the West during the Ming Dynasty. However, we have no way to verify the various records in historical materials, but Xu Shiyin’e is indeed a descendant of Ceylon. Descendants of the Lan royal family.

Although she could enjoy superior and comfortable "princess" treatment in Sri Lanka, Xu Shiyin'e did not agree to Sri Lanka's invitation to live there.

She believes that since her ancestors chose to live in China and she grew up in Quanzhou, Quanzhou, Fujian is also her hometown. She chose to return to her hometown and continue to live a plain and happy life.

After Xu Shiyin'e returned to Quanzhou, her life did not change much. She opened a shop and did business as usual, and went home at night to raise her husband and children.

The biggest difference is that because of her special identity and background, she was given the title of "Civilian Ambassador of China and Sri Lanka", devoting herself to the diplomatic friendship between China and Sri Lanka!