Why is the summer after eight years of Qianlong called "the hottest summer in history"?

Because it was really hot that year. After eight years of drought, the glazed tiles above the Forbidden City were scorched by the sun, which shows how hot it was at that time. In the eighth year of Qianlong, that is, 1743, it was recorded that rare high temperature weather appeared in all parts of China at that time. There are 56 times of high temperature weather in China. In Beijing, Zhengzhou, Shandong and other places, extreme high temperature weather has occurred in many parts of the country, with the highest temperature reaching 44.4 degrees Celsius. After the outbreak of extreme high temperature weather, people died of heatstroke every day, and the high temperature weather at that time even formed a natural disaster in a certain sense.

According to the records of Tianjin County Records and other county records, the extremely hot weather that broke out that summer caused great trouble to people's lives and travel. Because of the hot weather, businessmen are reluctant to go out to set up stalls to do business, and there is no one in the street. At that time, the tiles on the house were scorched by the sun.

According to the records, the number of heatstroke deaths in Beijing and its suburbs at that time was 1 1400, and this figure was only between July and July 25th of 14. Within ten days, more than 10,000 people died of high temperature in Beijing, which shows how terrible the high temperature weather was at that time.

So since the weather is so hot, how did Emperor Qianlong spend such a hot summer? In ancient times, wealthy families had two ways to escape the summer. The first way is to take out the ice stored in winter, and the second way is to go to another place for the summer. There are several summer resorts in Ganlong. Since it can be hot in Beijing, you can change to a place where the heat can't kill you, and then come back after the high temperature.