Prince of Ceylon of Prince of Ceylon—descendant of Taiwan

On the morning of August 10, 2005, Sun Shikunzong, the 19th Taiwanese prince of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and others visited their roots in Quanzhou to pay homage to their ancestors. Previously, they donated the "Family Genealogy", which had been collected for hundreds of years and recorded the origins of Fujian and Taiwan families, to the China Museum of Fujian and Taiwan Relations, which is under construction.

On the morning of the 8th, four people including Sun Shikunzong, Shimeigui, Shizhou Xiumei and Shi Yaru, descendants of the 19th Taiwanese generation of Prince of Ceylon, were accompanied by Xu Shiyin'e, a descendant of Quanzhou, Prince of Ceylon. , came to the construction site of the China Fujian-Taiwan Marriage Museum, which is located at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain and beside the West Lake in Quanzhou, and handed over the "Family Tree" that has been collected for hundreds of years to Chen Jianying of the Fujian-Taiwan Marriage Museum Preparatory Office. Shi Kunzong said affectionately: "After we learned through the media that Quanzhou, the second hometown of Prince Ceylon, was building a museum on the relationship between Fujian and Taiwan, we were very concerned about the construction of the museum. We feel that the "Genealogy of the Family" records the origins of the Fujian and Taiwan families. The important historical fact is a precious document that witnesses the relationship between Fujian and Taiwan. Therefore, in conjunction with the Quanzhou family’s journey to find their roots, this genealogy was specially brought to donate.”

It is understood that the Ming Dynasty after Zheng He’s voyages to the West. In the third year of Shun Dynasty (AD 1459), the prince of Ceylon, Shilibajiao Laja, served as an envoy to China. Later, he stayed in Quanzhou for some reason and took the first character of his name "Shi" as his surname. During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, the 15th grandson of Prince Ceylon, Zhenzhi, traveled east to Taiwan, set up a museum to teach apprentices, and thrived there. It has been passed down to more than 20 generations. In 1998, Quanzhou Evening News disclosed for the first time that Prince Xu Shishi of Ceylon was in Quanzhou, which aroused interest and concern at home and abroad. After the news reached Taiwan, the Taiwanese descendants of Prince Ceylon were very happy, so they came to Quanzhou several times to trace their roots and ancestors. The Quanzhou Family Genealogy was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, but what is gratifying is that another version of the genealogy is still intact in the hands of descendants of aristocratic families on the other side of the Taiwan Strait. This genealogy bears witness to the fraternal love that continues from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, which is extremely precious.