睡前故事257 篇

中华历史 100 篇 · The Second World War 40 episodes · 中国史 67 讲 · Europe 50 chapters

中华历史睡前故事

从春秋战国到清朝,每篇约 2000–2600 字,朗读 10–13 分钟。

一、春秋战国28

001掘地见母郑庄公发过的誓,和他后悔的办法 002一鼓作气曹刿论战:为什么要等敌人敲完三通鼓 003管鲍之交生我者父母,知我者鲍子 004老马识途大军在山谷里迷了路 005唇亡齿寒借条路给邻居,后果是什么 006退避三舍流亡十九年后兑现的一句酒后承诺 007一鸣惊人楚庄王三年不飞不鸣 008问鼎中原王孙满怎么回答那个危险的问题 009结草衔环一个老人在草地上打的结 010卧薪尝胆勾践的二十年 011兔死狗烹范蠡为什么在最风光的时候走了 012高山流水子期死后,伯牙再也不弹琴 013三令五申孙武在王宫里练兵 014晏子使楚橘生淮南则为橘 015火牛阵田单用一千头牛复国 016商鞅立木城门下的一根木头,五十金 017胡服骑射一位国王决定改穿"敌人的衣服" 018田忌赛马同样的马,换个顺序 019围魏救赵不去救,反而赢了 020完璧归赵蔺相如捧着玉,退到柱子边 021负荆请罪廉颇背着荆条上门 022纸上谈兵赵括读遍兵书,为什么还是输了 023毛遂自荐我这把锥子,还没放进口袋 024窃符救赵一个看城门的老人的计策 025鸡鸣狗盗半夜的函谷关和一声鸡叫 026邹忌讽齐王吾孰与城北徐公美 027端午的来历屈原和一条江 028图穷匕见风萧萧兮易水寒

二、秦汉19

029指鹿为马赵高在朝堂上做的一次点名 030破釜沉舟项羽砸了锅,沉了船 031鸿门宴项庄舞剑,意在沛公 032约法三章进了咸阳城,刘邦只说了三句话 033胯下之辱韩信为什么忍了那一回 034萧何月下追韩信追的不是逃兵,是国士无双 035暗度陈仓一边修栈道,一边翻小路 036四面楚歌帐篷外唱起了家乡的歌 037圯上受书张良给老人捡了三次鞋 038缇萦救父一个女孩的上书改了一条法律 039金屋藏娇汉武帝四岁时说的一句话 040苏武牧羊北海边上的十九年 041张骞凿空出去一百人,回来两个 042飞将军李广一箭射进了石头里 043一部书和一个人司马迁为什么活了下来 044昭君出塞一幅画像引出的远行 045举案齐眉一对夫妻和一只托盘 046投笔从戎不入虎穴,焉得虎子 047马革裹尸六十二岁的马援又出发了

三、三国两晋南北朝17

048桃园结义三个陌生人在桃花树下 049望梅止渴曹操的一句谎话救了全军 050三顾茅庐第三次,门终于开了 051草船借箭三天,十万支 052赤壁的那场东风火烧连营八百里 053刮目相看士别三日,非复吴下阿蒙 054七步成诗本是同根生 055白帝城托孤"君可自取"这四个字 056空城计城楼上的琴声 057乐不思蜀一个亡国之君的回答 058广陵散嵇康要来一把琴 059闻鸡起舞祖逖和他渡江时说的话 060兰亭雅集一场春天的聚会,一篇天下第一行书 061洛阳纸贵左思用十年写一篇文章 062东山再起谢安下完那盘棋,前线捷报已到 063不为五斗米折腰陶渊明挂印回家种地 064木兰从军同行十二年,不知木兰是女郎

四、隋唐五代14

065牛角挂书李密骑着牛读《汉书》 066玄武门那个清晨改变唐朝的一天 067以人为镜魏征死后,唐太宗说的那句话 068房谋杜断两个宰相,一个出主意一个拍板 069狄仁杰断案一年判完一万七千件积案 070口蜜腹剑李林甫的笑 071一个人,走了五万里玄奘西行 072文成公主入藏带走的不只是嫁妆 073鉴真东渡失败五次,第六次他已经看不见了 074力士脱靴李白醉写清平调 075推敲贾岛撞上了韩愈的车 076一骑红尘妃子笑荔枝从岭南到长安 077单骑退回纥郭子仪脱下盔甲走进敌营 078红叶题诗一片顺着御沟漂出宫墙的叶子

五、两宋10

079陈桥兵变一件黄袍 080杯酒释兵权一顿酒解散了开国将领 081半部论语治天下赵普的书箱里只有一本书 082司马光砸缸七岁孩子的一击 083划粥断齑范仲淹的寒窗,和"先天下之忧而忧" 084程门立雪门外的雪下了一尺深 085铁面包拯关节不到,有阎罗包老 086乌台诗案之后苏轼怎么在黄州活成了苏东坡 087三个字岳飞和"莫须有" 088留取丹心照汗青文天祥过零丁洋

六、元明7

089马可·波罗看见的中国一本让欧洲人不敢相信的书 090布衣天子从放牛娃到开国皇帝 091郑和下西洋宝船到过非洲 092北京保卫战于谦:粉骨碎身浑不怕 093龙场悟道王阳明在贵州驿站的那一夜 094鸳鸯阵戚继光和他的义乌兵 095备棺上疏海瑞买好棺材再上奏

七、清5

096收复台湾郑成功和荷兰人的最后一战 097一群摔跤的孩子少年康熙智擒鳌拜 098披阅十载曹雪芹在西山写《红楼梦》 099虎门销烟林则徐的两万三千箱 100抬棺出征左宗棠六十八岁收复新疆

The Second World War

Forty episodes in order, 1,300–1,700 words each, about 10–13 minutes read aloud.

I. When the War Came6

001A Label on Your CoatOperation Pied Piper: 1.5 million people leave the cities in three days 002The Sunday Morning Broadcast3 September 1939, and a voice on the wireless 003The Forest Nobody WatchedThe Ardennes, and a wall that faced the wrong way 004Three Hundred Thousand and a BeachDunkirk, and the little ships 005The Man Who Would Not Give InChurchill's first summer 006The First Night of the Blitz7 September 1940

II. The Island Holds On5

007The Towers on the CoastRadar, before anyone was allowed to say the word 008The FewThe pilots of the Battle of Britain 009The Girls Who Moved the MapThe filter rooms, where the battle was actually run 010One Egg a WeekRationing, digging up the lawn, and mending everything 011The Ships That Sailed TogetherAtlantic convoys, and the men in the water

III. Codes and Tricks5

012The Machine with the RotorsHow Enigma worked, and the three Polish mathematicians who broke it first 013The Man Who Built the BombeAlan Turing, and the huts in the park 014Nine Thousand People Who Said NothingA secret kept for thirty years, mostly by young women 015A Code Nobody Could BreakThe Navajo code talkers 016The Man Who Never WasOperation Mincemeat, and an army made of rubber

IV. People Who Helped6

017The Visas from ViennaHo Feng-Shan, a Chinese diplomat who kept signing 018Writing Until His Hand CrampedChiune Sugihara in Lithuania 019The Man with the ScrapbookNicholas Winton, and a television studio in 1988 020Boats in the NightHow Denmark moved almost every Danish Jew to Sweden 021The Zookeeper's HouseThe Warsaw Zoo, and what was living in the empty cages 022The Girl in the Back RoomsAnne Frank

V. The War Becomes the World's6

023A Sunday Morning in HawaiiPearl Harbor 024Bombers Off a Carrier DeckThe Doolittle Raid, and the Chinese villagers who hid the crews 025Sharks' Teeth on the NoseThe Flying Tigers, and flying the Hump 026Five Minutes at Midway 027The Symphony in the Starving CityLeningrad, the frozen lake, and Shostakovich's Seventh 028The City on the VolgaStalingrad

VI. Turning Points6

029The Desert RatsEl Alamein 030The Weather Man Who Chose the DayJames Stagg, and the forecast that moved D-Day 031The Longest Day6 June 1944 032A Harbour You Could TowThe Mulberry harbours, and a pipeline under the sea 033The Ones Who Were Not ThankedThe Red Ball Express and the Tuskegee Airmen 034The Battle in the SnowThe Ardennes again, and one word sent from Bastogne

VII. Animals, Machines and Ordinary People3

035Wojtek, Judy and a Pigeon Called WinkieA bear, a dog, a bird, and the medal they were given 036Mould in a BedpanPenicillin, and the curved wing of the Spitfire 037The Night WitchesSoviet women flying wooden biplanes with the engines switched off

VIII. When It Ended3

038The Day the Bells RangVE Day, May 1945 039The Hardest ChapterHow the war ended in the Pacific, and a question with no good answer 040What They Built AfterwardsAnd why we still tell these stories

中国史 · 讲给成年人听

从春秋到清亡,每讲约 5000 字,朗读 20–30 分钟。单位不是故事,是问题;结尾不给教训,给的是还没有定论的地方。十卷六十七讲已全部写完。

卷一 · 封建的解体:春秋6

01平王东迁周王室的信用为什么再也没能恢复 02周郑交质天子与诸侯互换人质那一天,旧秩序具体坏在哪 03尊王攘夷霸主政治顶替了什么,又为什么撑不住 04楚国北上一个「蛮夷」如何一步步被写进华夏 05晋国六卿最强的国家怎样被自己的功臣拆掉 06弭兵与吴越一套靠霸主与会盟运转的国际体系,最后是怎么结束的

卷二 · 大争之世:战国6

07三家分晋周天子承认篡夺的那一年,意味着什么 08李悝、吴起、商鞅变法到底改了什么,代价由谁承担 09从封建到郡县一场持续两百年的行政革命 10百家争鸣诸子是在回答同一个问题吗 11合纵连横战国的外交、情报与信用 12长平之后统一为什么落到秦头上

卷三 · 帝国的诞生:秦与楚汉5

13皇帝这个词一套全新政治语言的发明 14书同文车同轨标准化的收益与代价 15秦为什么二世而亡从贾谊到里耶秦简,几种解释的消长 16陈胜吴广中国式民变的第一个模板 17楚汉之际刘邦到底赢在哪里

卷四 · 汉:制度的定型8

18汉承秦制郡国并行的五十年试验 19文景之治「无为而治」在财政上是什么意思 20汉武帝 · 钱盐铁、均输、告缗:战争如何重塑经济 21汉武帝 · 边匈奴、西域与几十年扩张的账 22独尊儒术一个被夸大又被低估的转折 23王莽一次以复古为名的激进改革 24东汉豪族帝国如何被地方一点点吃掉 25党锢与黄巾汉的最后几十年

卷五 · 分裂三百年:三国两晋南北朝8

26三国的实相人口、屯田与三个政权的账本 27九品中正门阀是怎么长出来的 28西晋崩溃八王之乱与永嘉之祸 29衣冠南渡东晋、侨姓与吴姓的百年角力 30十六国北方的胡族政权究竟在做什么 31孝文帝汉化是成功,还是北魏灭亡的伏笔 32南朝的士与庶一个高度文明却停滞的社会 33佛教东来中国思想史上最大的一次外部输入

卷六 · 重建与鼎盛:隋唐8

34隋的三件事科举、运河、均田 35隋为什么亡得像秦短命王朝的共同结构 36贞观之治制度、纳谏,以及它的限度 37三省六部与律令唐代国家机器如何运转 38武则天一次对关陇门阀的清算 39开元到天宝盛世内部的裂缝 40安史之乱为什么说它是中国历史的分水岭 41藩镇与两税法唐的下半场并不是苟延残喘

卷七 · 转型:五代与两宋8

42五代十国武人政治的五十三年 43杯酒释兵权宋代如何解决唐代留下的问题,代价是什么 44宋代的钱商业革命、纸币与「财政国家」 45庆历与熙宁范仲淹、王安石与改革的两难 46理学士大夫为什么要重建形而上学 47澶渊之盟用钱买和平,划不划算 48靖康一个富国怎么会输成这样 49南宋半壁江山的一百五十年

卷八 · 草原与中原:辽金元5

50辽与金二元帝国的治理术 51蒙古崛起一次军事革命,一个世界体系 52元朝的中国四等人制、色目人与史料的分歧 53驿站与白银元代留下的经济遗产 54元为什么只有九十七年短命的不是征服,是治理

卷九 · 明6

55朱元璋废丞相,与皇权的极限化 56永乐迁都、下西洋与一次半途而废的外向 57内阁与宦官明代权力的实际运作方式 58张居正一条鞭法,与改革者的身后 59晚明白银、江南、士人与思想的松动 60明的崩溃财政、气候、流寇与辽东,四条线怎么绞在一起

卷十 · 清7

61入关少数如何统治多数 62康雍乾盛世的制度基础,与人口这颗炸弹 63天下秩序朝贡、藩部与一个多元帝国 64乾嘉之变白莲教与盛世的终点 65鸦片战争冲突的真正根源是什么 66太平天国与中兴内战、湘淮军与权力的下移 67甲午到辛亥变法、新政与王朝的终局

Europe · Fifty Chapters

From the Greek city that invented public argument to the union still arguing, 1,800–2,200 words each, about 14–17 minutes read aloud. All fifty chapters are complete.

I. The Inheritance6

001The City That ArguedAthens invents politics as public argument, then loses its nerve 002The Long QuarrelSparta, Athens, and the war that ended a golden age 003The Boy Who Kept Going EastAlexander, and a Greek world that reached India 004A Republic of FarmersRome before the emperors, and how it swallowed a sea 005The Republic Dies of Its Own SuccessCaesar, Augustus, and the price of winning everything 006Roads, Water, LawWhat Rome actually built, and why it outlasted itself

II. After Rome6

007The Year the Rent StoppedWhat the fall of Rome looked like from a farm 008The Empire That Did Not FallConstantinople, and the half that lasted a thousand years 009The Book and the BellMonasteries, and how writing survived a bad century 010The Prophet's CenturyIslam in Spain and Sicily, and what came north with it 011The Emperor Who Could Not WriteCharlemagne, and the first idea of Europe 012Ships from the NorthThe Vikings, from raid to kingdom

III. The Medieval Order6

013Those Who Pray, Fight and WorkHow a society explained its own inequality to itself 014Two SwordsPopes and emperors, and the question of who outranks whom 015The Long Journey ArmedThe crusades, from Clermont to the sack of a Christian city 016Town Air Makes You FreeTowns, guilds, charters, and money coming back 017The Question MachineUniversities, and the habit of arguing in public 018The Charter in the MeadowMagna Carta, and kingship with conditions attached

IV. Crisis and Rebirth6

019The Rain That Did Not StopA cooling climate, and the famine before the plague 020The Year Half of Europe DiedThe Black Death, and what it did to the price of labour 021A Hundred Years of WarEngland, France, and two nations made by fighting each other 022The Bankers Who Bought the PaintersFlorence, credit, and why the art moved when the money did 023The Machine That Copied BooksGutenberg, and the end of one institution's monopoly on text 024The Walls Come Down1453, and the end of the Roman story

V. Faith Divided5

025Ninety-Five ArgumentsLuther, and a quarrel that would not stay academic 026The Sea Road WestPortugal, Spain, and Europe's arrival everywhere else 027One King, One FaithFrance's wars of religion, and Saint Bartholomew's Day 028Thirty YearsGermany's catastrophe, and the worst of the religious wars 029The Peace That Invented the StateWestphalia, and sovereignty as we still use the word

VI. Reason and the Absolute King6

030The Sun and the PalaceLouis XIV, and absolute monarchy as a working machine 031The King Who Was InvitedEngland in 1688, and a crown handed over with terms 032The Sky MeasuredThe scientific revolution, and a new idea of what counts as proof 033The Coffee-House RepublicThe Enlightenment, and opinion becoming a force 034Sugar, Cotton and ChainsThe Atlantic slave economy, and who paid for the elegance 035The Kingdom That Was ErasedPoland's partitions, and the arrival of Russia and Prussia

VII. Revolution and Nation5

036The Summer the King Ran Out of Money1789, and a bankruptcy that became a revolution 037The Year of the GuillotineThe Terror, and what revolutions do to themselves 038The CorsicanNapoleon, and revolution exported at bayonet point 039Putting the Furniture BackThe Congress of Vienna, and forty years of managed calm 040The Spring of Nations1848, and why every revolution that year failed

VIII. Steam, Empire and the Abyss6

041The Smoke Over the ValleyIndustry, and a new kind of poverty nobody had a name for 042A Spectre and a Union CardMarx, the unions, and the social question 043Blood and IronBismarck, and how Italy and Germany became countries 044The Map Coloured InEmpire abroad, and the scramble for Africa 045The Summer That Ended1914, and how the fuse was actually lit 046The Peace That Did Not HoldVersailles, and a twenty-year truce

IX. Divided and Rebuilt4

047The Second Catastrophe1939–1945 seen whole; the detail is in the forty-episode war series 048A Wall Through the MiddleThe Cold War, and a continent cut in two 049The Year the Wall Came Down1989, and what almost nobody predicted 050The Union and Its DiscontentsCoal and steel to the euro, and the arguments still running