The Golden Beetle

Sleep Tight Stories - Bedtime Stories for Kids

Sleep Tight Media

Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Golden Beetle is a Chinese tale about a family that has been having a hard time. They hope that things will get better but they are very, very hungry and Ming-li, the son, is not having any luck finding work. One day a priest comes to their house to reward them for their faith and persistence. He gives Mrs. Wang a golden beetle and tells her what she needs to do. He tells her not to sell it and it will fill their stomachs for as long as they live. How can this be true? Mrs. Wang can’t wait to try it. Sleep Tight!, Sheryl & Clark ❤️👂📖 Support Us 👉 If you are enjoying the podcast and would like to show your support, get Sleep Tight Premium: Sleep Tight Premium 🎈Shop for Sleep Tight Stories merch.! ✨Help us improve the show by supporting us on Patreon for as little as $2. https://www.patreon.com/sleeptightstories ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts, or share our podcast with your friends. ❤️ We would love to hear from you, reach out to us via our website. While there you can find the words to most of our stories. ❤️ We're social! Let's connect on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter About Sleep Tight Stories Sleep Tight Stories brings you two calming bedtime stories every week. Stories that promote wonder, creativity and fire young listeners’ imagination while helping them drift off to sleep with ease. They are just the perfect length, are safe for kids of all ages, and feature originals and classics that never grow old. Our stories add a little happily-ever-after to your bedtime routine. Sleep Tight Premium Subscribe to Premium to get instant access to interruption-free episodes, extra exclusive stories, breathing and mindfulness episodes, and music and sound for sleep. Sleep Tight Premium feed includes: No interruptions or ads 🙌 4 + sleep stories per week 📖 Mindfulness and meditation episodes 🧘🏽 Extra long sleep sounds and music episodes 🔊 Access to our full catalog of over 500+ episodes 📚 Special shoutouts for the kids (including birthdays) ❤️ Get your 7-day free trial: https://sleeptightstories.org/support/

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0:00.0	Hello friends, and welcome to Sleep Tide Stories.
0:22.5	Today I am going to share a Chinese tale with you.
0:28.5	In this story we will meet Mrs. Wang and her son and their two pets.
0:35.7	They are very, very hungry and don't have any money to get any food.
0:44.2	The sun, mingly, goes out looking for work every day to get money to buy food, but has
0:51.6	not been very lucky.
0:56.4	One day a priest comes to their door to reward them for their faith and persistence.
1:03.9	He gives Mrs. Wang a golden beetle and tells her how this will be the end of all their problems.
1:13.2	How can a beetle save them?
1:17.0	Let's listen and see.
1:22.6	The golden beetle.
1:27.0	What shall we eat tomorrow?
1:28.6	I haven't the slightest idea.
1:32.0	Said Mrs. Wang to her oldest son as he started out one morning in search of work.
1:41.0	Oh, the gods will provide.
1:44.2	I'll find a few coins somewheres, replied the boy trying to speak cheerfully.
1:50.0	Although in his heart, he also had not the slightest idea in which direction to turn.
2:00.0	The winter had been a hard one, extreme cold, deep snow and harsh winds.
2:09.2	The Wang house had suffered greatly.
2:13.0	The roof had fallen in, weighed down by heavy snow.
2:17.7	Then a hurricane had blown a wall over, and mingly, the sun up all night and exposed
2:26.4	to a bitter cold wind had caught pneumonia.
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