🏮Tonight, I invite you into a gentle collection of sleep stories following the quiet rhythms of the Qingming Festival in Tang Dynasty Chang’an.

Across this four-part journey, we move softly from the evening before the festival into a full spring day. It begins on the eve of Qingming, where the Pei household prepares cold offerings in still kitchen courtyards under dim lantern light. By early morning on Qingming day, the family rises with calm purpose, gathering willow twigs and prepared dishes before setting out through light spring drizzle toward the ancestral tombs outside Chang’an.

There, careful hands tend the earth, and offerings are placed in quiet reverence. The presence of past generations lingers gently in the air. As the rites conclude, the day opens into a peaceful spring outing along the southeastern banks beyond Chang’an, where water, reeds, and soft conversation carry the afternoon.

By evening, the household returns home through damp ward lanes, where candlelight, warm bowls, and small familiar tasks close the day in a gentle, unhurried sequence.

Let this unbroken rhythm of ritual, nature, and home carry you softly into rest. 💤

Chapters

00:00:00 Welcome

00:01:42 Story 1 – Qingming Festival Eve : Cold Food Preparation

00:36:23 Story 2 – Qingming Festival : Tomb Sweeping

01:06:29 Story 3 – Qingming Festival : Spring Outing by the River

01:41:11 Story 4 – Qingming Festival : Even Return

02:18:27 Goodnight

02:19:47 Night Ambience

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