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The hotter the weather, what climbs higher? Brain Twister

The answer is temperature. The hotter the weather, the faster the temperature rises.

It's not necessarily the sun, because sometimes the temperature in sauna days is very high on cloudy days, and it's not necessarily the sun.

Whether in mercury thermometer or electronic thermometer, the higher the temperature, the greater the value, which can be understood as the faster the climb.

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Ancient methods of measuring temperature:

Generally speaking, temperature refers to the degree of hot and cold. The concept of hot and cold has existed since ancient times. Before the thermometer appeared, people often judged whether an object was cold or hot by touching it with their hands, and how hot or cold it was.

This tactile sensation method based on body temperature can only judge the temperature difference within a certain range, rather than a specific temperature concept. The temperature range expressed by the ancients as cold, cold, cool, warm, hot and hot will vary from person to person, which is highly subjective.

Even so, the ancients found some methods to objectively judge the degree of heat and cold. During the Warring States period, people knew that the degree of temperature drop could be inferred by observing whether water was frozen. For example, "Lu Chunqiu Shen Dalan Cha Jin" records: "When you see ice in a bottle, you know that the world is cold."

This practice has been recognized by later generations, and the Han Dynasty's "Brief Training of Huai Nan Zi Bing" also recorded almost the same thing: "See the water in the bottle and know the cold and heat on earth." This is because, by observing the freezing or melting of water in the bottle, we can really know the change of temperature.

The ancients lacked understanding of the laws of nature and thought that the abnormal gas order was a "warning" from heaven to the emperor and his wife. Therefore, it is necessary to record the gas sequence, write it in the official history book, and explain the good and bad luck. At the same time, the ancients also paid more attention to recording the climate conditions on some specific dates, such as the winter solstice.

Since 1 1 century at the latest, officials have become accustomed to recording the daily weather from winter to the next nine days, which is called "nine cold days". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people often recorded the weather these days on a map every day. There are as many as four volumes of ancient and modern books compiled in the Qing Dynasty. Now, we can see the temperature changes of the ancient climate in China from these records.