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Sleep Story Qin Dynasty | Mid-Autumn Feast by Moonlight (opens the original)
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While researching mid-autumn festival traditions in the Qin Dynasty, I found that many of the familiar customs we associate with the festival today developed in much later dynasties. That discovery led me to an older Wuyi Mountain legend, set against the historical world of the Qin Dynasty. Recorded in the Wuyi Mountain Record, written by the Song-dynasty scholar Zhu Mu, the tale tells of a mysterious mid-autumn gathering at Wuyi Mountain, a rainbow bridge, hundreds of pavilions, music, and a ma
Quiet Morning Walk Through China's First Imperial Capital | Sleep Story Qin Dynasty (opens the original)
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Tonight we step quietly back more than 2,200 years into Xianyang, capital of the newly unified Qin empire - a sprawling city of palaces, workshops, and roads with no wall to enclose it. In this gentle sleep story, a Qin official in his fifties rises before dawn on an early autumn morning, two years after the unification, and walks out alone to inspect a piece of ground the growing capital will soon need. His way takes him past the halls said to reproduce the palaces of the six fallen kingdoms, d
Tang Dynasty Palace Garment Keeper | Sleep Story (opens the original)
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Tonight, we step quietly into the inner palace garment courtyard in Chang'an, on a clear morning in the fifth lunar month in the height of summer , nearly 1,300 years ago, in the Tang Dynasty. In this gentle sleep story, a senior garment keeper works inside a Tang palace courtyard where summer silk is lifted from cedar chests into warm light. She checks tally slips and palace seal tags, arranges pale robes on bamboo poles, and lets mugwort and cedar scent the storage rooms. The afternoon rests s
Rainy Night Lantern Walk in Chang'an | Ancient China Sleep Story (opens the original)
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Tonight, we step quietly into Xuanyang Ward in Chang'an, nearly 1,300 years ago, at the height of the Tang Dynasty. In this gentle sleep story, a lantern attendant begins his quiet round beneath the rain. Wearing a woven bamboo rain hat and straw rain cape, he carries lamp oil, a small wick-trimming tool, an ember tube, and a long bamboo pole with an iron hook. Through wet lanes, covered eaves, pale ward walls, and small amber circles of light, he tends each lantern until the night grows deep. A
A Winter Night with an Imperial Astronomer | Ancient China Sleep Story (opens the original)
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Tonight we step quietly onto the observation platform of the Imperial Astronomical Office in Tang Dynasty Chang'an, nearly 1,300 years ago, on a clear winter night above the sleeping capital. In this gentle sleep story, a senior observer stands beside the bronze armillary sphere, the instrument whose interlocking rings help measure the paths of the heavens. Beneath the stone platform, the water clock keeps official time with a steady drip, while above the city the winter stars return to their fa
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