There was also a Little Ice Age during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. How harmful was it at that time?

When you hear the word Little Ice Age, you may not know what it means, but you must have heard of the Ice Age, which is several major changes in the earth's environment in the long history, and the Little Ice Age is very similar to the Ice Age. Similar, only the scope and degree of impact are relatively smaller, but the impact it has is still unacceptable to people. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties in my country, a Little Ice Age occurred. The demise of the Ming Dynasty was also related to this Little Ice Age. The impact of the Little Ice Age was not only the temperature drop in weather, but also other aspects, and even caused many chain reactions. Various disasters occurred one after another, crops were greatly affected, and people were displaced. Because of the impact of this Little Ice Age, my country's population dropped sharply at that time.

The Little Ice Age lasted for more than 300 years, spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties. Although it was much weaker than the large-scale ice ages in history, its impact on people's lives was Huge. During the Little Ice Age, an important feature was that the temperature was extremely low in winter and the surrounding environment was extremely cold. And the cold spell lasts a long time. Although summer will be better, the temperature will also drop a lot. This directly affects crops across the country. The harvest in people's fields was not good. At that time, once people's crops were not harvested well, it would cause a series of other problems. The most serious one was that it would make society extremely unstable, which might cause all kinds of panic and confusion.

The stability of the Ming Dynasty was greatly affected by the Little Ice Age. During the Qing Dynasty, because the Little Ice Age had already occurred for some time, and the Qing Dynasty was more open-minded at the time, it did more disaster relief than the Ming Dynasty. OK, so the Qing Dynasty was relatively less affected.

The ice age that occurred at that time brought many impacts, not only a sudden drop in temperature, but also caused drought in the land at that time. Because in many cases in our country, cold weather is accompanied by drought, which directly affects crops across the country. During the Ice Age of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the weather conditions were dominated by drought. After checking the information, I found that droughts occurred in many places across the country at that time. This was almost a common situation across the country. Some places had droughts for two or three years without rain, while some places may continue to have droughts that last for 10 years. Rain, just imagine, who can bear it? This is the impact of the Little Ice Age during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.