The Crystal Heart: A Vietnamese Legend
Drift Off - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Joanne D'Amico
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Tonight’s bedtime story is a gentle reading of a beautiful Vietnamese tale called The Crystal Heart which is included in the “Gifts of Story” series of storytelling by Aaron Shepard. This lovely legend is about a mandarin’s daughter who discovers that appearances can deceive but the heart speaks true. Instead of background music, this story has soothing background rain sounds to help enhance the feeling of relaxation and peace as you listen. All you have to do is settle in under the covers and snuggle up tight...and then let’s get sleepy together...sweet dreams and good night...
Story Attribution:
I am so grateful to Aaron Shepard and his beautiful adaptation of this Vietnamese Tale which has been made available in his Gifts of Story Series http://www.aaronshep.com/storytelling
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| 0:00.0 | A soft place to land at the end of the day with a calming bedtime story to help quiet |
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| 0:33.7 | friends. |
| 0:34.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:36.9 | Tonight's bedtime story is a beautiful tale that is included in the Gifts of Story series |
| 0:44.2 | of Storytelling Adaptations by Aaron Shepard, a Vietnamese legend called The Crystal |
| 0:52.2 | Heart about a Mandarin's daughter who discovers that appearances can deceive, but the heart |
| 1:00.4 | speaks true. |
| 1:03.1 | So settle in under the covers and smuggle up tight. |
| 1:08.3 | Let's get sleepy together now, sweet dreams and good night. |
| 1:21.8 | Long ago in a palace by the Red River, their loved a great Mandarin and his daughter, |
| 1:28.4 | Mean Wong. |
| 1:31.0 | Like other young ladies in her position, Mean Wong was kept indoors away from the eyes |
| 1:38.1 | of admiring men. |
| 1:41.5 | She spent most of her time in her room at the top of a tower. |
| 1:47.2 | Where she would sit on a bench by a moon-shaped window, waiting or embroidering, chatting with |
| 1:54.6 | her maid, engaging out often at the garden in the river. |
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