Today in history: February 2nd.

Because under the sunshine of Candle Festival, it will snow until May.

1February 2, 887, the first official groundhog sunrise appeared in Gobler knob, a rodent meteorologist in Penksutony, Pennsylvania. According to a long-standing tradition, if a woodchuck jumps out of a hole and sees his own shadow on this day, it will be cold for six weeks. If he doesn't, it means you can plan an early spring.

Groundhog day can be traced back to an era when we were more in harmony with the earth and the seasonal cycle. Many cultures have some kind of festival in early February. Ancient Celts celebrated that when Christians rose to the dominant position because of bolk, bolk became a candle. This is the midpoint of winter, the moment of purification, and the first awakening of new life.

The first European immigrants from Pennsylvania came from Germany, and they brought with them the tradition of predicting the weather on Candle Day with a humble animal hedgehog. Because hedgehogs are rare in the New World, they regard groundhogs as.

But why do prairie dogs come out of warm caves in the middle of winter? A woodchuck or woodchuck hibernates in late autumn. In early February, the male prairie dog came out of the cave-but this was not to give a long-term prediction to mankind, but to find a female friend. Once they get scratched, they will go back underground until March.

It happened on February 2nd, 1886, the first groundhog day in Pasutony, Pennsylvania. According to reports, this decision was announced by the town's newspaper editor Clymer Freas, who told readers: "Today is groundhog day. Until I went to the newspaper office, the beast had not seen its shadow. "

As mentioned above, in the second year, groundhog day's first trip to Gobler Handle was organized by an organization calling itself Punk Sutani Groundhog Club. Freas, the actual leader of the organization, announced that Phil (I guess they call him by his first name) is the official punk Sutani groundhog, and the only one with meteorological super power.

Every year people come out to see if Phil's sentence will increase. After a long time, news media all over the world began to report this result. Other towns began to hold their own groundhog day celebrations, including weather forecast for rodents. But Phil is still the biggest star, attracting thousands of viewers, especially after the film groundhog day 1993 was released. All this is because hibernating rodents wake up during a winter nap in search of luck.

You may wonder how accurately these rodents use the "shadow" tradition to predict the weather. The result is not very ... Many avatars of Punk Sutanifil (prairie dogs have only lived in the wild for 3-6 years and kept 10- 14 years) are accurate only about 39% of the time. According to a Canadian study on 13 groundhogs used in festivals in different cities, the net accuracy rate is only 37%. So we'd better flip a coin, but I think it's difficult to build a political party around this issue.

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