This year is the third year of Tianshun in Ming Dynasty. Ming Yingzong was very happy when he saw the treasures and specialties presented by Prince Ceylon in Zhu Qizhen. He not only returned a lot of gold and silver, but also gave Prince Ceylon a year to live in China. Knowing that Ceylon believed in Buddhism, Yingzong specially presented a small and exquisite porcelain statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva, which was hidden in the palace, with a beautiful line printed on it, "Only for Emperor Daming Tianshun", to Prince Ceylon.
Prince Ceylon didn't live in Beijing for long before winter came. Cold and sexual abuse made him sick. At Jacky's suggestion, he forced his sick body to bid farewell to Ming Yingzong, trudged all the way to Quanzhou, a southern city with a warm climate, and stayed in the official residence of Jacky for illness. Illness kept him ill for several years, and he didn't recover until the spring of 1466.
Just as Prince Shi of Ceylon was preparing to return to China, King Ceylon suddenly died of illness. As the Crown Prince Shi Zhihua had not returned for many years, his life and death were uncertain, and no one took over, a coup took place in the court soon-the king's nephew Barorada usurped the throne. The vicious Barorada not only killed all the sons and nephews of the king in the Imperial City, but also sent people not far from Wan Li to China to find the whereabouts of Prince Ba Li, with the intention of uprooting the grass.
After learning this, Jacky, who has a deep friendship with the Prince, bought a house for the Prince at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain in the suburb of Quanzhou, and quietly sent Raja and his party there for the night.
After the shock of Shiliba to the maharaja was confirmed, he sent his followers back to China to inquire about his royal family. However, a year later, he got the news that his entourage had just contacted several royal relatives in Ceylon, and was found and beaten by Barorada's minions, forcing him to tell the prince's current position. He was beaten to death, but he didn't tell the traitor his whereabouts until his death. After hearing about it, Shiliba decided to settle in Quanzhou.
Shiliba was thirty-nine years old when he settled in Quanzhou with Raja. With the help of Jacky, he married an Arab aristocratic woman, Pu Shi, who was exiled to China because of persecution. In order to hide his identity, the prince took the first word of his name "Shi" as his surname, and his descendants also took "Shi" as their surname. Aristocratic families bought land and property in Quanzhou, and became a noble family in Quanzhou, which was quite prominent in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Although it is impossible to verify how many children Leba gave birth to in the past, since Prince Ceylon came here, there has been no surname "Shi" in all written records of Quanzhou. Later, in the 46th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 16 18), Quanzhou's aristocratic clans stood out, and the Cai Xiang Memorial Hall next to Luoyang Bridge was listed as "the political monument of Cai Gongde, the first military leader of the whole army". In the early Qing Dynasty, there was a famous statue of "peaches and plums are all over the world", who was the "mountain leader" of Zhu Cong Academy in Xiaoshan, Quanzhou at that time (equivalent to the current dean). According to Quanzhou Fuzhi, "Shi Gongxian, whose name is Ertao, was born in Quanzhou, the eldest son of Ceylon monarch is Shiliba, and he is a friend of Wang Bus." .
Xu E, a descendant of the18th generation of Prince Ceylon in Quanzhou, said that when the family name was passed on to her great-great-grandfather's generation, the family members had been reduced to only one. When she was a child, she read the genealogy and heard her father explain that her great-great grandfather's name was Shilong, and she married a Jinjiang woman Zhu, and only gave birth to three daughters without boys, so she asked her second daughter, Shi Yijuan, to recruit a local boy and give birth to a son. As Xu Heshi is an only child, she changed her son's surname to Xu's and named him Jiujiu, which means that she can have more children in Quanzhou. However, after Xu Shijiu married Xu, he only gave birth to Xu's grandfather. Xu married his grandmother Li and gave birth to his father Xu Shijingbo. After Xu Shijingbo married Xu's mother Cai, she finally broke the deadlock of several generations of single biography and gave birth to a daughter and three sons in succession. Xu E is the eldest, aged 35, and his eldest brother Xu Shixiong followed his parents in his early years.
Xu's grandmother is over eighty years old and still lives in Quanzhou. She used to visit her ancestral graves in Shijiakeng. She often says to the younger generation, "Our ancestors came from the distant sea." Xu E's father Xu Shijing and his two younger brothers now live in Hong Kong, and his younger brother Xu's family and aunt live in Quanzhou. According to the investigation, Cha Xushi's family made a living abroad and once lived in the Philippines, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province.
Xu E said that one thing that impressed her the most was that during the Cultural Revolution, grandma burned genealogy and hid Buddha statues.
At that time, Xu's grandmother Li heard that anyone with overseas relations would be confiscated. Anyone who is suspected of "crossing the ocean" has been copied and will be given "dictatorship". Xu's grandfather Xu fled to the Philippines and never came back, but he often sent letters and money to his grandmother. Naturally, he has overseas relations, but his grandmother is not afraid of this, because everyone around him knows his grandfather's situation, but there is a family tree named Shi at home, which clearly records that his ancestor is Prince Ceylon. Is this a "foreign exchange"? Even if not, what is the "composition" of the prince? Now the families of landlords and capitalists are actually worse than the prince! Grandma was scared at the thought of this place, so she quickly put several piles of genealogy and all the words recording the history of the stone family into the firewood basket, and then cooked three meals for firewood.
After burning the genealogy, grandma thought of the porcelain statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva given by Ming Yingzong to her ancestor Prince Shili of Ceylon. If this Buddha statue is copied, it's no big deal for the rebels to say that you engage in superstitious activities. If we carefully look at the fine words "enshrined by Emperor Daming Tianshun" behind the Buddha statue and get to the bottom of it, the identity and origin of their ancestors will be exposed, and the family will suffer! After thinking about it all night, she finally thought it was important to save her life.
At dawn the next day, grandma got up, took a bucket and went to a well not far from home, pretending to draw water and trying to throw the Buddha into the well. Unexpectedly, her hands were shaking badly because she was too scared. When the Buddha was pulled out of her arms, she didn't hold it firmly and fell on the well circle with a bang. The Buddha was broken! My grandmother was shaking with fear. She whispered the forgiveness of the Bodhisattva. She quickly picked up the broken Buddha statue and threw it into the well. After that, she stumbled home and fell on the bed and couldn't get up again. Xu E said that her grandmother had been ill for several years. Grandma said that as soon as she closed her eyes, she saw the broken-headed bodhisattva accusing her, and her head hurt even more. At this time, my grandmother struggled to get up, knelt down and begged the bodhisattva for mercy and made a wish: as long as the government allows one day, she and her family will invite the best craftsmen to rebuild the golden body of the bodhisattva and provide incense forever. But it didn't make her better. Later, my grandfather sent her some medicine from the Philippines, and her condition improved slightly.
Due to the influence of the Cultural Revolution, Xu E's father, Xu Shijingbo, was afraid of his hometown. With grandpa's help, he went to live in Hong Kong 1970. 1985, my father took Xu E's mother and three younger brothers to Hongkong, leaving only Xu E and her grandmother who was nearly eighty years old in Quanzhou.
In modern times, the situation of the Shi family has long been unknown to the outside world. In fact, as early as 1985, the Asian Department of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Culture of the State Council conveyed to Quanzhou Evening News the request of the Sri Lankan Embassy to find the descendants of Prince Ba-Raga in Quanzhou. However, because there is no clue, the relevant departments have to give up their efforts because they have been looking for it for a long time. The literary and historical circles in Quanzhou have searched for nothing, but they don't know the key-the Shishi branch of Quanzhou was renamed Xu Shishi.
The secret was made public on 1996. At that time, Liu Zhicheng, an archaeologist from Quanzhou, discovered the tomb of Prince Ceylon in Shijiakeng at the foot of Dongyue Mountain in the suburbs. A scholar wrote an article to verify this point, and by the way, he made a sentence in the article: "It's a pity that aristocratic families have disappeared for a century." There was a wave of searching for Prince Ceylon's family, but no descendants of Prince Quanzhou were found. Xu E was very angry when he saw this article and asked her husband to find the author and explain it clearly. Sun Yahong realized that his wife is the "descendant of Prince Ceylon" that local cultural workers have been searching for for many years!
1May, 1999, a media in Quanzhou exposed the news that the family tomb of "Shijiakeng" was destroyed. The descendants of the prince, who lived in the ancient city of Quanzhou and never showed a trace, finally could not help but protest against the destruction of their ancestral graves. Xu E called the mayor of Quanzhou, complaining angrily that her ancestral grave in Shijiakeng at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain in the suburbs of Quanzhou, Ceylon Expatriate Cemetery, was destroyed by a bulldozer of a construction unit, asking the mayor to stop it, and explaining that she didn't want to expose herself as a descendant of Prince Ceylon, so she had to speak out in order to protect her ancestral grave. It was her phone call that unveiled the mystery of this fallen descendant of Prince Ceylon who lived in Quanzhou for more than 500 years!