Why does the weather affect the alternation of Ming and Qing Dynasties?

According to ancient records, it was 1550, which was in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. From this time on, the earth entered a particularly cold period, which lasted for 300 years. It is not only cold in the north, but also extremely cold weather in Fujian and Guangdong today.

We all know that Guangdong belongs to the subtropical coastal area, and the Tropic of Cancer runs through the south-central, belonging to the maritime subtropical monsoon climate, which is mainly warm and rainy.

However, the weather here was extremely bad at that time. The river is frozen, and the cold is drought. The weather with little precipitation caused a devastating blow to the farmers' crops at that time, prompting them to suffer numerous deaths and injuries in the case of hunger and cold for several years in a row. Social phenomena such as peasant uprisings triggered by famine have come and gone, with great influence. These events are also recorded in the history books.

Bad weather also indirectly became the chief culprit of the replacement of Ming and Qing dynasties! /kloc-In 0/7, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, experienced a once-in-a-thousand-year drought and plague. The Ming court was in chaos, and the hungry people saw that there was no hope of survival and rose up one after another. Under the attack of multiple natural and man-made disasters, the Ming Dynasty perished.

According to historical records, from the middle of15th century to the middle of18th century, hundreds of millions of people died in China. Therefore, the population after the founding of New China is actually very small.