Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - The summer of Qianlong for eight years is called "the hottest summer in the history of China". What happened then?

The summer of Qianlong for eight years is called "the hottest summer in the history of China". What happened then?

In the eight years of Qianlong, that is,1July 743, the highest temperature in Beijing during the day reached 44.4℃, which was the highest temperature recorded in Beijing's history. How hot was it then? Let me introduce the scene at that time:

In Gaoyi County, Hebei Province in July, 1743, standing in the shade of a wall still feels like being burned. Lead and tin in the sun were burned, and many people died of thirst. "Gaoyi County Records" records.

1743 in July, Fushan County, Shanxi Province, many pedestrians on the road were killed by heat. The situation in Beijing is even more serious, and Fushan people doing business in Beijing are also dying of heat; "Fushan County Records" records.

1743 In Tianjin County in July, the earth and stone were burnt, the tin ornaments on the top of the mast were melted by the sun, and many people were killed by the heat. "Tianjin County Records" records.

At that time, the "heat disaster" spread to Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong, and people died of heatstroke. According to the official statistics at that time, from July 65438 to July 25, 743, the number of heatstroke deaths in Beijing suburbs and urban areas alone reached 1 1400! It can be seen that the high temperature weather at that time was already a natural disaster.

When Qianlong was eight years old, the industry was underdeveloped and the environmental pollution was not as serious as in modern times, but extreme weather with ultra-high temperature appeared. What is the reason? There are two reasons for this extreme weather: one is the movement inside the earth, and the other is the periodic movement of galaxies.

If we make a statistic on the environmental changes of the earth, we will find that in a certain period of time, there will be serious extreme weather on the earth, such as the Little Ice Age in the late Ming Dynasty and heavy snow in Guangdong. This situation is generally periodic, and it will happen when the earth or the whole solar system moves to a certain position.

The internal movement of the earth can also produce extreme weather. For example, in 18 15, Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted, causing abnormal weather in the northern hemisphere. The following year, serious disasters occurred in many places, and a rare low temperature appeared in summer. At that time, Europe, North America and even Asia were also affected, resulting in famine in China and Yunnan.

The high temperature in Beijing in the eight years of Qianlong is still the highest record, but whether it is caused by external factors or internal factors of the earth, there is no accurate conclusion. Now that we all have air conditioning, we can easily spend the summer in the hot weather of about 40 degrees, so it is difficult to understand how the ancients lived in the environment of 44.4 degrees at that time.