What happened to a little-known natural disaster in the history of our country, which caused hundreds of millions of deaths?
preface
Natural disasters, man-made disasters, no matter which one will bring heavy disasters to the country and the people, man-made disasters can still be avoided, if you encounter natural disasters, it is really miserable. In the face of natural disasters, human beings are so fragile in life, and human strength is so small, the elders often say: where misfortunes and blessings depend, blessings and misfortunes lie. It is true that my country is a country of many disasters and difficulties, but what about this? If I can't be defeated, it will only make me stronger, so there is a word called: how difficult it is to rejuvenate the country!
1. The ''Apocalypse' of a Heavy Snow
When you think of man-made disasters, what can you think of? The Princes of Beacon Theatre, the Five Hu Chaohua, the Eight-Nation Alliance... What about natural disasters? People often think of earthquakes, floods, snow disasters, and epidemics in modern history, because they have experienced it personally, so they have a profound impact. In fact, there have been many natural disasters in China's history, the most serious of which has a death toll of more than 200 million, if it were not for that natural disaster, the Chinese mouth would have exceeded 2 billion.
This natural disaster occurred in the late Ming Dynasty during the Xiaoice River period, and the natural disaster was not without warning, and the Yunnan Tongzhi recorded such a passage:
In the winter of the forty-sixth year of the Shenzong Wanli Calendar, guangdong snow, time and yin, cold and even more. The day is snowy, the next day is like a pearl, the next day it is like goose feathers, the sixth to the eighth day is over, the peaks in the valley are standing on the wall, the forest is strong, the father and the elder have said, never been, and then even the years have passed.
In the 46th year of the Wanli Calendar, there was a heavy snowfall in Guangdong, as the saying goes, ''Ruixue Mega Year'',' people are immersed in the dream that this heavy snow will bring a great harvest to the coming year, but they have not thought that this is not "'Ruixue'", but a ''life-inducing snow''.' From this heavy snow, the climate of the whole country became more and more abnormal, perhaps destined in the dark, the Ming Xi Sect's year number was ''Apocalypse'', after Zhu Youguan ascended the throne, with some ambition, he planned to make the twilight country at this time rejuvenate, and even the year number was carefully selected, and finally decided ''Chongzhen''.
2. Natural disasters continue
The Xiaoice River period lasted a long time, spanning two dynasties, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty could not but be said to be free of natural disasters. During the reign of the Chongzhen Emperor, the temperature continued to drop, the winter was extremely cold, and countless poor people were frozen alive in the winter. In addition to the extremely cold weather, there was also a continuous drought, which was a devastating blow to agricultural production, people had no clothes to withstand the cold, they had to endure hunger, and even if the Chongzhen Emperor tried his best, he could not resist the scourge of natural disasters.
The climate of the north and the south is different, the south is warm and humid, but in the period of the Xiaoice River, when the temperature is unusually cold, the river surface in the south is covered with a thick layer of ice, and the situation in the north, which has always been cold, can be imagined. In addition to triggering dynastic changes, this natural disaster also caused a sharp decline in the population of the whole country.
The ancients were superstitious and believed that the continuous natural disasters were not the emperor's character? According to historical records, in the first year of Chongzhen, there were constant droughts, locust plagues, and consequent plagues, and during the reign of the Chongzhen Emperor, he issued six edicts of sin and hope that the heavens would have mercy on his people. However, the people still had no grain, and the wild grass in the mountains was eaten by roots, and when they ate, they nibbled on the bark, and when the bark was gone, they began to eat Guanyin soil.
People died in despair, piled up corpses and dry environments became breeding grounds for bacteria, and tens of millions of people died in the plague alone. In "Hanamura Talks", the encounter describes the tragic situation at that time: two people riding horses one after the other, and the person in front of them turned around and found that the person behind him was dead, and he still maintained the posture of raising the whip before dying; an official's servant died of the plague, and he sent someone to buy a coffin, and the person sent out died in the coffin shop.
There were natural disasters on the top and disasters on the bottom, the whole imperial court was rotten at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people suffered natural disasters and suffered for days, and they had to endure the oppression of the imperial court, at this time, it was not death, but also death, Li Zicheng echoed a hundred responses, and the displaced people followed him all the way to Kyoto. What was the situation in Kyoto at that time? "'People and ghosts are mixed, and people at dusk don't dare to do it.'"
3. Xiaoice River period
The series of disasters caused by this low temperature did not gradually improve until the Shunzhi years, and the grain problem changed after low-temperature-tolerant crops such as potatoes and corn came to China. In fact, There have been four such periods in Chinese history, in addition to this one in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there are also the last years of yin shang, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the last years of the Tang Dynasty.
Natural disasters have caused man-made disasters, and countless people have died in the war, and this natural disaster is not directed at China, but the whole world has been affected, but the situation in China is more serious. What led to the emergence of the 'Xiaoice River Period'? Scientists have studied that it is all related to the sun, and even predicted the next "Xiaoice river period"; the time of arrival.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, our country has also suffered several natural disasters, and each time we have survived with one heart and one mind, "'The heavens will descend on the people of Sri Lanka'", taking these disasters as a test of heaven, I believe that every time we survive a disaster, our people will be more united and our motherland will be stronger.