Ancient China Sleep Stories and Meditations by Su

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Hello there, Welcome to Ancient China Sleep Stories & Meditations by Su. A place to unwind, rest, and find a little calm. 🏮 My sleep stories invite you into the quiet beauty of ancient China: lantern-lit streets, tranquil tea houses, mountain villas, misty rivers, and peaceful evenings. Inspired by different dynasties and historical periods, each story offers a quiet journey toward sleep. 🌿 My guided meditations take you into peaceful settings across ancient China, weaving mindfulness with ancient Chinese wisdom and philosophy to offer comfort and reflection through the rhythms of your day and the seasons of life. Get comfortable, take a breath, and let a little of the day soften. 🕓 New sleep story every Sunday at 4:00 pm AEST. 🎧 You can also listen on Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations Channel Tags: Sleep Story, Bedtime Story, Ancient China, Meditation, Guided Meditation

  1. 2d ago

    Meditation for Leaving Work Behind: An Evening Bath in Ancient China

    Take some quiet time in ancient China, 1,300 years ago, at autumn dusk in Tang-dynasty Chang’an. You leave your unfinished work and papers neatly on your desk. Then you walk home beneath yellow leaves as wild geese fly south and the evening drums begin. When thoughts of work follow you, you notice them and let them rest until tomorrow. You set aside your office belt and robe and settle into a warm, herb-scented bath. Your body rests as you look out over the still pond and falling willow leaves, and your mind slowly settles. Later, on the lantern-lit walkway, an old teaching from the Tao Te Ching reminds you that when the work is done, it is time to step back. The rest of the evening is yours to enjoy. Take a slow breath, and let this evening belong to you. 🌿 💤 Prefer listening without YouTube ads? You can also find Su QuietSleep on Insight Timer : https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations ☕ A small gesture of thanks if you wish : https://buymeacoffee.com/suquietsleep 🕯️ You can find all listening options and links here : https://suquietsleep.github.io/suquietsleep/ #worklifebalance #guidedmeditation #meditation #mindfulness #ancientchina #tangdynasty #suquietsleep Visuals & Illustrations : AI-generated #worklifebalance #guidedmeditation #meditation #mindfulness #ancientchina #tangdynasty #suquietsleep

    Meditation for Leaving Work Behind: An Evening Bath in Ancient China

  2. 2d ago

    Snowy Night at a Mountain Villa | Ancient China Sleep Story

    🏮Tonight, we step quietly into a mountain villa on a south-facing ridge of Zhongnan Mountain, south of Chang'an, nearly 1,300 years ago, at the height of the Tang Dynasty. It is deep winter. The rest of the household has long since gone to bed. Somewhere far below, in the dark valley, the last note of a temple bell has already faded away. Snow has been falling since before dusk, thick and slow, without wind. In the reading room at the corner of the villa, a single beeswax candle burns low on a small table beside the daybed. An old man reclines beneath a heavy quilt by the open window, quietly watching the snow fall into the night. Settle in, relax, and drift gently into sleep. 😴 Chapters 00:00 Welcome 01:45 Sleep story begins 26:18 Goodnight 💤 Prefer listening without YouTube ads? You can also find Su QuietSleep on Insight Timer : https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations ☕ A small gesture of thanks if you wish : https://buymeacoffee.com/suquietsleep 🕯️ You can find all listening options and links here : https://suquietsleep.github.io/suquietsleep/ #sleepstory #sleepstories #bedtimestory #ancientchina #snowynight #relaxingsleep #suquietsleep #mountainvilla #tangdynasty Visuals & Illustrations : Created with ChatGPT

    Snowy Night at a Mountain Villa | Ancient China Sleep Story

  3. 2d ago

    Building the Terracotta Warrior's Body in Spring Rain | Ancient China Sleep Story

    Tonight, we step quietly back more than 2,200 years, into the Qin Dynasty, when Xianyang was the imperial capital of the newly unified Empire. In this gentle sleep story, a young apprentice works beneath Mount Li in the mausoleum workshops of the Qin Dynasty. He rolls damp yellow clay into long coils and raises the hollow body of a terracotta warrior while spring rain taps softly on the tiled roof. The unfinished figure rests beneath a damp cloth, patient in the grey light of the workshop yard. Settle in, relax, and drift gently into sleep. 😴 Chapters 00:00 Welcome 01:46 Sleep story begins 24:46 Goodnight 💤 Prefer listening without YouTube ads? You can also find Su QuietSleep on Insight Timer : https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations ☕ A small gesture of thanks, if you wish : https://buymeacoffee.com/suquietsleep 🕯️ You can find all listening options and links here : https://www.suquietsleep.com/ #sleepstory #sleepstories #bedtimestory #ancientchina #relaxingsleep #suquietsleep Music & Soundscapes : Created with AI-assisted tools including Suno Visuals & Illustrations : Created with ChatGPT

    Building the Terracotta Warrior's Body in Spring Rain | Ancient China Sleep Story

  4. Oct 11

    Afternoon Walk in Winter Snow | Ancient China Sleep Story

    🏮Tonight, we step quietly back into a mountain villa on a south-facing ridge of Zhongnan Mountain, south of Chang'an, nearly 1,300 years ago, in the height of the Tang Dynasty. It is late in the afternoon, after a whole night and morning of heavy snow. Some time after midday, the snowfall began to change. The large flakes grew smaller, and fewer, until what comes down now is only a fine, light snow, drifting more than falling, as though the sky has nearly finished and is in no hurry to stop. An old woman living with her husband, a retired minister, in a mountain villa on Zhongnan watches a long snowfall soften into fine, drifting flakes. Wrapped in a fur-lined winter robe, she walks slowly through the snowy grounds, past the bamboo grove and along the outer wall, her footprints staying behind her in the fresh snow. Settle in, relax, and drift gently into sleep. 😴 Chapters 00:00 Welcome 01:45 Sleep story begins 26:09 Goodnight 💤 Prefer listening without YouTube ads? You can also find Su QuietSleep on Insight Timer : https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations ☕ A small gesture of thanks if you wish : https://buymeacoffee.com/suquietsleep 🕯️ You can find all listening options and links here : https://suquietsleep.github.io/suquietsleep/ #sleepstory #sleepstories #bedtimestory #ancientchina #relaxingsleep #suquietsleep #winter #snowy Visuals & Illustrations : Created with ChatGPT

    Afternoon Walk in Winter Snow | Ancient China Sleep Story

  5. Oct 10

    Sleep Meditation : Midnight Spring Rain | Ancient China

    🌿Take a few quiet minutes in ancient China. It is a spring night in a garden estate in Tang Chang'an, and you are tucked beneath a warm quilt while rain falls softly over the garden. A cool breeze drifts through the open lattice as you listen to the rain on the roof tiles and dripping from the eaves, until there is only the sound of it. Then a much-loved Tang poem, "In the night came the sound of wind and rain," invites you to let the rain carry you into sleep. Settle in, relax, and drift gently into sleep. 😴 💤 Prefer listening without YouTube ads? You can also find Su QuietSleep on Insight Timer : https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations ☕ A small gesture of thanks if you wish : https://buymeacoffee.com/suquietsleep 🕯️ You can find all listening options and links here : https://suquietsleep.github.io/suquietsleep/ #morningmeditation #guidedmeditation #meditation #mindfulness #ancientchina #rainynight #springrain #tangdynasty #suquietsleep Visuals & Illustrations : Created with ChatGPT

    Sleep Meditation : Midnight Spring Rain | Ancient China

  6. Oct 10

    Guided Meditation: Morning Calm & Clarity | Ancient China

    🌿 Take a few quiet minutes in ancient China. It is a spring dawn in a garden estate in Chang'an, Tang Dynasty and far beyond the wall, the first drums are sounding across the sleeping city. You wash your face in cool well water and watch a single willow leaf settle on a still pond. Then an old line from the Tao Te Ching, "have little, and gain; have much, and be confused," helps you choose one quality to carry gently into your day. Breathe slowly, and begin your day gently. #morningmeditation #guidedmeditation #meditation #mindfulness #ancientchina #tangdynasty #suquietsleep #taoteching

    Guided Meditation: Morning Calm & Clarity | Ancient China

  7. Oct 4

    Fall Asleep Under the Mid-Autumn Moon in Pavilion | Sleep Story Tang Dynasty

    🏮Tonight, we step quietly back nearly 1,300 years, into Chang'an at the height of the Tang dynasty. It is dusk on the fifteenth night of the eighth month, the night of the Mid-Autumn moon. Just beyond the southern walls of the city, the second daughter of the Pei family has come to their country estate, as she has done many times before, to spend the night in a garden pavilion, waiting for the mid-autumn moon to rise. Alone in the open upper pavilion, with a little wine, some fruit, and a scroll of poetry, she watches the mid-autumn moon climb over the garden, the pond, and the quiet countryside stretching away towards the distant Zhongnan Mountains. Settle in, relax, and drift gently into sleep. 😴 Chapters 00:00 Welcome 01:46 Sleep story begins 33:04 Goodnight 💤 Prefer listening without YouTube ads? You can also find Su QuietSleep on Insight Timer : https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations ☕ A small gesture of thanks if you wish : https://buymeacoffee.com/suquietsleep 🕯️ You can find all listening options and links here : https://suquietsleep.github.io/suquietsleep/ #sleepstory #sleepstories #bedtimestory #ancientchina #midautumn #relaxingsleep #suquietsleep #midautumnfestival #fullmoon #Zhōngqiūjié Music & Soundscapes : Created with AI-assisted tools including Suno Visuals & Illustrations : Created with ChatGPT

    Fall Asleep Under the Mid-Autumn Moon in Pavilion | Sleep Story Tang Dynasty

  8. Sep 27

    Sleep Story Qin Dynasty | Mid-Autumn Feast by Moonlight

    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 magical feast. It inspired me to imagine what such a mid-autumn night might have felt like more than two thousand years ago. 🏮 Tonight, we step quietly back more than two thousand years, into the Qin Dynasty, when China's first emperor had only recently brought the Warring States under one rule. It is one year after the unification, and the new empire is still very young. On the fifteenth night of the eighth lunar month, a village woman draws water at dusk, washes and changes into fresh hemp, and climbs the mountain path with the whole village, as they do together every year. A softly glowing bridge waits near the summit, and beyond it hundreds of cloud-soft pavilions stand beneath the full moon, where music plays from somewhere unseen, dish after dish appears, and cloud-like cushions hold the warmth of the night. When the feast and music end, the woman and the villagers make their way home, carrying with them a sense of wonder and gratitude for the night they have the magical mid-autumn night shared. Settle in, relax, and drift gently into sleep. 😴 Chapters 00:00 Welcome 01:46 Sleep story begins 34:15 Goodnight 💤 Prefer listening without YouTube ads? You can also find Su QuietSleep on Insight Timer : https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations ☕ A small gesture of thanks if you wish : https://buymeacoffee.com/suquietsleep 🕯️ You can find all listening options and links here : https://www.suquietsleep.com/ #sleepstory #sleepstories #bedtimestory #ancientchina #relaxingsleep #suquietsleep #qindynasty

    Sleep Story Qin Dynasty | Mid-Autumn Feast by Moonlight
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Hello there, Welcome to Ancient China Sleep Stories & Meditations by Su. A place to unwind, rest, and find a little calm. 🏮 My sleep stories invite you into the quiet beauty of ancient China: lantern-lit streets, tranquil tea houses, mountain villas, misty rivers, and peaceful evenings. Inspired by different dynasties and historical periods, each story offers a quiet journey toward sleep. 🌿 My guided meditations take you into peaceful settings across ancient China, weaving mindfulness with ancient Chinese wisdom and philosophy to offer comfort and reflection through the rhythms of your day and the seasons of life. Get comfortable, take a breath, and let a little of the day soften. 🕓 New sleep story every Sunday at 4:00 pm AEST. 🎧 You can also listen on Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/suquietsleep/guided-meditations Channel Tags: Sleep Story, Bedtime Story, Ancient China, Meditation, Guided Meditation

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