The descendants of the Prince of Ceylon in Quanzhou, Fujian, see the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka three times a day

Within a day, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Shanayake Jayaratna met with the descendants of the Prince of Ceylon, the ancient name of Sri Lanka, who now lives in Quanzhou, Fujian. On the 20th, Xu Shizhen, who had returned from the activities of the Sri Lanka National Pavilion after attending the World Expo, spoke with reporters about her "strange" experience of seeing Sri Lankan Prime Minister.

“This time I was invited to participate in the Sri Lankan National Pavilion Day event. On July 11th, the Cultural Counselor of Sri Lanka went to Quanzhou to participate in the China Haihang Airlines Day.” Xu Shizhen said, “Because we met before, when we met, the counsellor Mr. President invited me to attend the Sri Lanka National Pavilion Day Event on the 18th World Expo. After the Counsellor returned, he immediately sent Xu Shizhen an invitation to participate in the event.

According to Xu Shizhen’s introduction, on the afternoon of the 18th, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Shanayak Jayaratna received her. On the first meeting, the Prime Minister told Xu Shijun that he had known Xu Shizhen’s family and knew that Xu Shizhen’s ancestor was once the king of Sri Lanka. This history was also recorded in Sri Lanka’s history books. In the interview, Xu Shichen sent a pair of couplets that read “The Buddha’s Light shines on the three thousand circles and the five continents of France and France” as a gift to Prime Minister Jayaratna.

The second time I saw Prime Minister Jayaratna was an accident. In the exhibition hall, Xu Shih met the ambassador of Sri Lanka to China. The ambassador thought that Xu Shih-hwan had not seen Prime Minister Jayaratna. Brought her to the Prime Minister.

The next time he saw Prime Minister Jayaratna in attendance at the dinner, Prime Minister Jayaratna found Xu Shizhen and informed the Prime Minister that she would also like to meet with her and learn about the descendants of the Prince of Ceylon in Quanzhou, China. "The third meeting talked for a long time." Xu Shizhen said that Prime Minister Jayaratna asked the details of Xu Shizhen's family and the descendants of the Prince of Ceylon. He also invited the family members of the Xu Shizhen to go to Sri Lanka. Go, Xu Shizhen also warmly invited Prime Minister Jayaratna to visit Quanzhou.

Xu Shichen told reporters that the purpose of this visit was actually to promote the formation of a friendship city between Quanzhou and Sri Lanka. Since Zheng He went to the western world, China and Sri Lanka have formed a deep relationship. "We can live now." Here, we have witnessed this origin."

Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, has been dealing with China since the Han Dynasty. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Sino-Thai trade, trade, and cultural exchanges became closer. In the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He sailed to the West for many times.

During the Ming Yingzong years more than 500 years ago, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) prince Shilibaba made a mess with China. He was settled in Quanzhou because his throne was inherited by an outsider, and he had a wife and children in Quanzhou. Later he took the prince's name. The first word "worldly" in the name of Shilaba was "surname". The “World” family is a single generation from generation to generation, and the family is not big. Bullying and persecution happen from time to time, so people who had a “Xu” surname changed their surname to “Shi Xu”.

More than a decade ago, with the joint efforts of many parties, Xu Shizhen, a descendant of the Prince Ceylon, was finally found. In 2002, at the invitation of the Sri Lankan government, Xu Shizhen returned to visit Sri Lanka. She told reporters that she had never forgotten the feeling at the time and that she was very kind when she took a plane. She herself was very strange. It was already hundreds of years old. But when she set foot on the land of Sri Lanka, there was still a kind of Strong intimacy. (Finish)

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