Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather forecast - The working people of our country have summed up the experience of "looking at the clouds to know the weather" in production. Why can they do this?

The working people of our country have summed up the experience of "looking at the clouds to know the weather" in production. Why can they do this?

In ancient times when science and technology was underdeveloped, humans inferred future trends through changes in various natural phenomena, and then formed laws that have been passed down to this day. This kind of inference and inheritance of rules is based on the experience summary of "phenomenon first, results later". That is what is said today? Practice brings true knowledge.

In the ancient saying "Look at the clouds to know the weather", there are such things as "there are clouds in the sky and rain on the ground". There were broom clouds in the sky, and it rained for three days. ? and a series of regular summaries drawn from long-term observations by the ancients. Let's discuss it in detail with "Hooku clouds in the sky and rain on the ground". Both ancients and modern people like to think about it. After "Hooku clouds" appeared many times in the sky, people found that it would rain soon. So, those who love to ponder began to think, is this a coincidence? After the problem arose, attention arose as the times require. Since then, people have begun to focus on the clouds. Once "Hook-Hook Clouds" appear in the sky again, they will record and track whether it will rain in the future, and so on. After thousands or even tens of thousands of observations and records, we finally came up with high probability statistics and came up with the weather pattern of clouds in the sky and rain on the ground, which has been widely circulated until today.

The ingenuity and wisdom of the ancients have been fully exerted here. There is actually a scientific reason for the relationship between changes in clouds and whether it rains or not. However, at that time, people could not explain it scientifically, so they came up with the inference results based on phenomena. This aspect also shows that although the ancients did not involve it Science, but their practice confirms the science. In the same way, all other "Looking at the clouds to know the weather" are based on such observation and observation, forming a widely circulated law and being passed down from generation to generation. In fact, it is not just about knowing the weather by looking at the clouds. In many other aspects, the ancients summarized it into rules based on long-term life experience, and then became true knowledge. For example, the twenty-four solar terms that are still in use today, or the relationship between the moon and the tides? There are really too many.

Summary: Through the ancients’ ability to read clouds and understand the weather, it is not difficult to see that in the development of the times, people constantly reasoned and summarized the myriad laws of nature through changes in natural phenomena in production and life, and It was refined step by step until it became the truth we know today. All these prove the intelligence and wisdom of the Chinese people.