18 15 What was the Yuncheng earthquake like?

The Pinglu Earthquake in History —— Twenty Years of Jiaqing (18 15).

In the 20th year of Jiaqing reign of Emperor Renzong in Qing Dynasty (18 15), there was a great earthquake in Yuncheng, Hedong Road, Shanxi Province, counties in Zhili Prefecture, Xiezhou, Shaanxi Province, Lingbao and Min Township, Henan Province, and tens of thousands of people were killed in Yuncheng and Zhili Prefecture, which caused heavy losses. The disaster in Pinglu is particularly serious.

I. Earthquake process and disaster situation

In the 20th year of Jiaqing (18 15), it rained continuously for 40 days in Yuncheng and some counties in Zhou Pu and Zhili. September 13 "da ji, an old man of insight in the countryside said that it is hot after rain, so it is advisable to prevent earthquakes. The listener didn't mean it at first. " On the night of the 20th, an earthquake occurred in these areas at the same time. According to local gongshengji records, after the second watch, "suddenly the house collapsed, louder than thunder, and people were teetering, I don't know if it was in the sky or underground." Find a door, the threshold is flush with the eaves. If it's outside, watch two eaves fight. Out of the alley, all the people lying are lying on their backs. Its standing, the left and right are not self-sustaining. Men and women cry, in the camp. ..... and the walls of the streets and alleys fell down, and it was impossible to level more than ten steps. As soon as we leave the country, the sound of terror is endless, and with the help of the earthquake, people will not be surprised if the pedestrians on the ground are in a boat and the wind is swaying. "It's horrible, even the recorder" wants to elaborate, and it hurts when he writes ",but he can't bear to continue to write it down. In this earthquake, Xiezhou, Anyi, Yuxiang, Pinglu and Ruicheng were "heavier in five places, and Pinglu was particularly heavy". Local military and civilian temples, offices, warehouses, city walls, prisons and residential buildings all collapsed, causing heavy casualties. Among them, Yuncheng and Jiezhou City Gate Buildings collapsed. Pinglu County "true grit, the world is red, the trees are swept away, the houses are shaken, the flat ground suddenly cracks dozens of feet, black sand and water gush out, and it opens again and again, destroying countless houses." In Pinglu county, "there are many caves in the mountains and many houses for the whole family", and the losses are even heavier. After careful investigation, Pinglu County * * * "More than 30,000 people died in the earthquake". Among them, 8676 people were killed in Jinmao Town, Pinglu County, and the earthquake was called "eternal disaster".

Earthquakes last for days, months or even years in some areas. Pinglu county "there will be several earthquakes in the future or a day, and there will be several months of abnormal earthquakes, which is about four or five years."

Second, Pinglu County hanged Zhang Lu.

After the earthquake, Zhang Lu, then the county magistrate of Pinglu County, felt very heavy when he saw that "there was no return to the disaster and there were cries everywhere". So, "I went to the village to support the elderly and witnessed the horror, and I was saddened. Please come on stage and pay for the relief. " After the money arrived, Zhang Lu went to the four townships to "measure disasters and disperse difficulties". At that time, it was in the middle of winter, heavy snow was falling, and the victims were "hungry and cold, and the earthquake lasted for several months, and the dead continued." To this end, Zhang Lu "ran around day and night, hurting himself, being immoral, and the people suffered from this terrible poison and hanged themselves." It has fully demonstrated to the world the image of an "honest official" who "loves the people like a son" in a feudal era. When the local people heard the news, they all "cried sadly, like bereavement." Decades later, my father talked with the old man, and some people cried. "

In the twenty-first year of Daoguang (184 1), Tong and others "earnestly built a shrine", and the magistrate of a county was a "special shrine".