Known as "the hottest summer in China's history", how hot is it after eight years?

Every summer, people are miserable, especially in China's four big stove cities. It takes a lot of courage to walk outside from an air-conditioned room. In the hot summer, a word? Is it so hot? It has become people's mantra. Looking at the history of China, if you want to choose one? This summer in the history of China? This year must be eight years.

You know, there was no heatstroke prevention and cooling equipment in ancient times, and there was no climate abnormality caused by human destruction of the environment. So what happened this summer? How hot was it then?

Summer temperature in Qianlong eight years

Since the establishment of China Meteorological Bureau, there have been two extreme high temperatures recorded in China. 1942 The highest temperature in North China reached 42.6℃ in summer, and 1999 the extreme high temperature weather in North China reached 42.2℃ again in summer. Is this the highest temperature in Beijing history?

No, according to the conversion of the researchers of the Meteorological Bureau, the high temperature reached an astonishing 44.4℃ in the summer of Qianlong eight years, that is, in the late June of the lunar calendar, that is, on July 25th this year, which was about 2℃ higher than the modern high temperature weather. The high temperature of more than 40 degrees caused severe drought in the capital and 27 counties in the south of Jilin Province. This year, the number of deaths due to high temperature weather reached 1 1.400.

Report on the life of French missionaries

Can this really work? Is it hot to death? The weather is also reflected in the life report sent to Paris by a French missionary. In his report, the missionary described the hot scene of that year: many Christians thought it was a punishment from heaven, so they kept praying and repenting in the church, and the homeless poor and some obese people were killed by heat in the street.

Of course, the Qing government, which was still in its heyday at that time, did not ignore it. The emperor and ministers hold seminars for this hot weather every day and take certain measures. Soldiers distributing summer medicine and ice cubes can be seen in the main streets of Beijing and at the gates of the city. However, compared with nature, the strength of human beings is very small, and the death data of more than 10 thousand people in the record is frightening.

Qianlong

This summer heat not only appeared in Beijing, but was clearly recorded in the book "General Bureau of Meteorological Records of China in 3000", and the hot weather in the summer of this year spread all over North China. This is recorded in local chronicles all over the country? The hottest summer? . In the county annals of Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan and other places, it basically appears? May drought? 、? How hot are people? Something like that.

Although Qianlong stayed in the palace, there were ancient refrigerators, ice cubes, ice fans and other tools in the air to cool off the heat. He also felt the abnormality of this summer. The ancients were superstitious, and this extreme high temperature made Qianlong feel that this was a warning from heaven. He issued several orders in succession, and quickly added heatstroke prevention measures to the court.

Summer-relieving decoction

On May 29th, the criminal's sentence was reduced. If the crime is serious, they must be given mats, ice soup and drug bait. On the first day of June, it was once again ordered to allocate funds to Jiumen, Beijing, and to prepare ice water medicines everywhere in the south of the city to prevent heatstroke; On the eighth day of June, for counties that have never had rain and dew, taxes are postponed until after August; On the eighth day of June, the government allocated funds for disaster relief.

From May to165438+1October, a series of disaster relief work in Ganlong never stopped. However, the ice water and ice cubes used to relieve summer heat are only a drop in the bucket. What's more, Gan Long's series of plans only benefit the capital, and more and more disaster-stricken areas around the country can only rely on the hard resistance of the people, and countless people have become one in such a famine year.