Guided Sleep Meditation & Sleep Hypnosis from Sleep Cove - The Frog Princess - A Chinese Lunar New Year Story

Episode Date: February 16, 2026

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Tonight, we have the Chinese version of the Frog Princess. I'm Christopher, and this is Sleep Cove. Please remember to subscribe with the... the bells begin. Please get settled and ready and comfortable. The Frog Princess, where the Yank Sea Kian had come about halfway on its course to the sea. The Frog King is worshipped with great devotion. He is a temple there and frogs by the thousand are to be found in the neighborhood, some of them in enormous size. Those who incur the wrath of the God are apt to have strange visitations in their homes. Frogs hop about on tables and beds, and in extreme cases,

they even creep up the smooth walls of the room without form. There are various kinds of omens, but all indicate that some misfortune threatens the house in question. Then the people living in it become terrified, slaughter a cow and offer it as a sacrifice. Thus the God is modified and nothing further happens. In that part of the country, there once lived a youth named Sia Kung Shown. He was handsome and intelligent. When he was six or seven years of age, a serving maid, dressed in green, entered his home. She said that she was a messenger from the Frog King,

and declared that the Frog King wished to have his daughter, marry young sear. Old sear was an honest man, not very bright. This did not suit him. He declined the offer on the plea that his son was still too young to marry. In spite of this, however, he did not dare look about for another mate for him. Then a few years passed, and the boy gradually grew up. A marriage between him and a certain mistress, Guilla, was decided upon. But the Frog King sent word to Mistress Geon.

Young seer is my son-in-law. How dare you undertake, till they claim to what does not belong to you? Then Father Gion was frightened and took back his son, promise. This made old seer very sad. He prepared a sacrifice, went to his table to pray. He explained that he felt unworthy of becoming the relation of a god. When he'd finished praying, a multitude of enormous maggots made their appearance in the sacrificial meat and pulled

them out to forgiveness and returned home with evil forebodings. He did not know what more he could do and had to let things take their course. Young seer went out into the street. A messenger stepped up to him and told him on the part of the Frog King that the latter urgently requested seer to come to him. There was no help for it. He had to follow the messenger. He led him through a red gateway into some magnificent high-ceilinged rooms. In the great hall sat an ancient man who might have been some 80 years of age.

Seer cast himself down on the ground before him in homage. The old man bade him rise and assigned him a place at the table. Soon a number of girls and women came crowding in to look at him. Then the old man turned to them and said, Go to the room of the bride and tell her that the bridegroom has arrived. Quickly, a couple of maids run away, and shortly after an old from the inner, who might have been 16 years of age, was incomparably beautiful.

The old man pointed to her and said, This is my tenth little daughter. It seemed to me that you would make a good pair. But your father has scorned us because of our difference in race. Yet one's marriage is a matter that is of lifelong importance. Our parents can determine, if only in part, it rests mainly with one's self. Sia looked steadily at the girl, and a fondness for her grew in his heart. He sat there in silence.

The old man continued, I knew very well that the young gentleman would agree, go on ahead of us and we will bring you your bride. Seer said he would to inform his father did not know what to do in his excitement. He suggested an excuse and wanted to tell him. to send Sia back to decline his bride with thanks. But this seer was not willing to do. While they were arguing the matter, the bride's carriage was already at the door.

It was surrounded by a crowd of green coats, and the lady entered the house and bowed politely to her parents in love. law. When the latter saw her, they were both pleased, and the wedding was announced for that very evening. The new couple lived in peace and good understanding, and after they had been married, their divine parents-in-law often came to their house. Where they appeared, dressed in red, it meant that some good fortune was to before them. When they came dressed in white, it signified that they were sure to make some gain. Thus, in the course of time, the family became wealthy.

But since they had become related to the gods, the rooms, courtyards, and all other places bounded with to harm them. See a con show that was a young consideration. When he was in good spirits, he did not bother them, but when he got out of source, he knew no mercy,

and purposely stepped on them and killed them. In general, his young wife was modest and amenable, yet she easily easily, lost her temper. She could not approve her husband's conduct, but Sia would not do her the favour to give up his brutal habit, so she scolded him because of it and grew angry. Do you imagine, he told her, that because your parents can visit human beings with misfortune that a real man would be afraid of a frog? His wife carefully avoided uttering the word frog.

Hence, his speech angered her, and she said, Since I have dwelt in your house, your fields have yielded lodger crops, and you have obtained the highest selling prices, and that is something after all. But now, when young and old, you are comfortably established. You wish to act like the fledgling owl who picks out his own mother's eyes as soon as he is able to fly.

Seer, then grew still more angry, and answered, These gifts have been unwelcome to me for a long time. For now, I consider them unclean. I could never consent to leave such property to sons and grandsons. It would be better if we parted at once. So he bade his wife, leave the house. His parents knew anything about it. she was gone. His parents scolded him and told him to go at once and bring her back,

but he was filled with rage and will not give in to them. The same night he and his mother fell sick. They felt weak and could not eat. The father, much worried, went to the temple to beg for pardon, and he prayed so earnestly that his wife and son recovered in three days' time, and the frog princess also returned, and they lived together happily and contented as before. But the young woman sat in the house all day long, occupied solely with her ornaments, and her rouge and did not concern herself with sewing and stitching. So Sia Kung-Shong's mother still had to look out for her son's clothes. One day his mother was angry and said,

My son has a wife, and yet I have to do all the work. In other homes, the daughter-in-law serves her mother-in-law. But in her house, the mother-in-law must serve the daughter-in-law. This the princess accidentally heard, and she came much excited and began, Have I ever omitted, as is right and proper, to visit you morning and evening? My default is that I will not burden myself

with all this toil for the sake of saving a trifling sum of money. The mother answered not a word, but wept bitterly and in silence because of the insult offered her. Her son came along and noticed that his mother had been weeping. He insisted on knowing the reason and found out, what had happened angrily he reproached his wife she raised objections and did not wish to admit that she had been in the wrong finally see is said it is better to have no wife at all than one who gives her mother-in-law no pleasure what can the old frog do to me after all if i anger him Save call misfortunes upon me and take my life. So he once more drove his wife.

The princess left her home and went away. The following day, fire broke out in the house and spread to several other buildings. Tables, everything was burned. See it in a rage because of the fire. went to the temple to complain. To bring up a daughter in such a way that does not please her parents-in-law shows that there is no discipline in a house.

And now you even encourage her in her faults. It is said that gods are most just. Are there gods who teach men to fear their wives? incidentally, the whole quarrel rests on me alone. My parents had nothing to do with it. If I was to be punished by acts and cord, well and good, you could have carried out the punishment to yourself, but this you did not do.

So now I will burn your own house in order to satisfy my own sense of justice. With these words, he began pining up brushwood before the temple, struck sparks, and wanted to set it to blaze. The neighbours came streaming up and pleaded with him, so he swallowed his range and went home. When his parents heard of it, they grew pale with great fear. But at night the god appeared to the people of the neighbouring village to rebuild the house of his son-in-law.

When day began to dawn, they dragged up building wood, wrongs to build for seer. No matter what he said, he could not prevent them. All day long, hundreds of workmen were busy. Of a few days, utensils and curtains and furniture were there as before. The work had been completed. The princess also returned. She climbed the stairs to the great room and acknowledged her fault with the many tender and loving words. Then she turned to see her conchon and smiled at him sideways. Instead of resentment, joy now filled the whole house, and after that time, the princess was especially peaceable.

Two whole years passed without an angry word being said, but the princess had a great dislike for snakes. Once, by way of a joke, young seer but a small snake into a pile. castle, but she gave her and told her to open. She turned pale and reproached him. Seer Kungshong also took his chest seriously and angry words asked. The princess said, This time I will not wait for you to turn me out. Now we are finally done with one another. she walked. Father Seer grew very much alarmed, beat his son himself with his staff, and begged the God to be kind and forgive. Fortunately, there were no evil consequences and not a sound was heard. Thus, more than a year passed, Sia Kangshong longed for the princess

and took himself seriously to task. He would creep in secret to the temple of the God and lament because he had lost the princess, but no voice answered him, and soon afterward, he even heard that the God had betrothed his daughter to another man. Then he grew hopeless at heart, and thought of finding another wife for himself.

Yet no matter how he searched, he could find none who equalled the princess. This only increased his longing for her, and he went to the home of the Youngs, to a member of which family it was said she had been promised. they had already painted the walls and swept the courtyard and all was in readiness to receive the bridal carriage. Sear was overcome with a remorse and discontent. He no longer ate. His parents were quite stunned by the anxiety they felt on his account

and were incapable of helpful thought. Suddenly, while he was lying there only half conscious, he felt someone strung him and heard of a say, and how goes it with our real husband, who insisted on turning out his wife? He opened his eyes, and it was the princess. Full of joy, he leaped up and said, How is it you have come back to me? The princess answered to tell the truth, according to your own habit of treating people badly.

I should have followed my father's advice and taken another husband. And as a matter of fact, the wedding gifts of the young family have been lying in my home for a long time. But I thought, have thought, and could not bring myself to do so. The wedding was to her be this evening, and my father thought it was shameful to have the wedding gifts carried back. So I took the things myself and placed them before the young's door. And when I went out, my father ran out beside me. You insane girl, he said,

So you will not listen to what I say? If you are ill-treated by Seer in the future, I wash my hands of it. Even if they kill you, you shall have not come home to me again. Moved by her faithfulness, the tears rolled from Seer's eyes. The servants, full of joy, hurried to the parents, to acquaint them with the good news.

And when they heard it, they did not wait for the young people to come to them, but hastened themselves to their son's rooms, to the princess by the hand and wept. Young seer too had become more settled by this time and was no longer so mischievous. so he and his wife grew to love each other more sincerely day by day. Once the princess said to him, formerly, when you always treated me so badly, I feared that we would not keep company in our old age.

So I never asked heaven to send us a child. But now that all has changed, I will beg the gods for a sense. son. And sure enough, before long, see his parents and all appeared in their house, clad in red garments, and shortly after, heaven sent the happy pair two sons instead of one. From that time, in their relationship with the frog king was never interrupted. When someone among the people had angered the God, he first tried to induce young seer to speak for him and sent his wife and daughter to the frog princess to implore her aid. And if the princess laughed, then all would be well.

The seah family had many descendants, whom the people call their little frog men. Those who are near them do not venture to call them by this name, but to those standing further off do so.