The word "most" can be seen in the Warring States script at the earliest, from 冃, which originally meant hats, because hats are worn on top of people's heads, so they represent the highest. The most extreme word, only in the past tense, the use of "most" to express "the highest" is more appropriate, the "hottest summer" in history, appeared in the eight years of Qianlong, how hot is it?
When the ancients created the twenty-four solar terms, they also had a basic understanding of summer, and on the day of lixia, the ancients were still very happy, and the "Seventy-two Hou Ji Xie of the Moon Order" said: Li, Jianshiye, Xia, False, and everything is false at this time.
As a transitional period of late spring and mid-summer, the summer climate is still very pleasant, and the seeds sown in spring have also reached the day of growth, but China's longitude and latitude span is too large, and when the south and the north are in summer, the climate is different, there are poetry clouds: the southern country is like summer and the northern country is spring, and the green and beautiful rivers and rivers are full of trees.
After the summer, it is early summer, but the summer solstice, at this time the genius is really hot up, because of the greenhouse effect, the current summer is hotter and hotter every year, and now we still have electric fans, air conditioning, cold drinks, stay indoors, it is not very hot, the ancients were devastated by summer.
The Qing Dynasty experienced two climatic changes, one was the "Xiaoice Period" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, this extremely cold weather gave way to heavy snow in subtropical Guangdong, and the Guangdong Tongzhi Wuzong Zhengde first year (1506 AD) winter record: meteoric snow, thick rulers.
This great extreme cold caused famine, countless people died of extreme cold, the Qing Dynasty survived the extreme cold, and in the eighth year of Qianlong (1743), the Qing Dynasty ushered in the hottest summer in history. So how hot is this summer?
At that time, officials from all over the country submitted a recital to Qianlong to explain the heat disaster, and the "Tianjin County Chronicle" recorded the situation in May: the may was bitter and hot, the earth and stones were scorched, the mast was flowing gold, and many people died of heat. May has just entered the midsummer, the climate is extremely hot, the earth and stones on the ground are scorched, and people are also burned to death.
Shanxi's "Chronicle of Fushan County" contains: The summer and May fever, the road pedestrians are many killers, the Beijing division is even worse, and the floaters in Beijing traders also have hot deaths. In May, the situation in Shanxi was still good, with a large flow of people in Beijing and the construction of various tall buildings, so it was the hottest.
According to the statistics of the imperial court, 11,400 people died in the heat near and inside the city of Beijing, and modern historians, according to various records, deduced the high temperature of the year, the temperature pit in July reached 40 degrees, and the temperature in Beijing reached 44.4 degrees.
Qianlong was also too hot to bear, and also issued a holy decree to condemn himself: the edict and the capital master since the end of May. The weather is harsh. And steaming in the heat. Worse than in previous years. The details are raised in the heavens to show their signs. The night is sad. Don't let go. All lost because of the decay. Or the improper use of administrative work, not only that, but also specially made a poem: ice plate and snow mound, the cold light, tossing and turning bitter and hot, the heart is next to Qianli.
Qianlong looked at the heat disaster presented everywhere, he had no choice, and his heart was even more bitter and hot, but from this poem, it can also be seen that Qianlong himself still has the means to cool down, the poem mentions the ice plate, although the ancients did not have a refrigerator, but the natural ice cubes are still there.
According to the "Great Qing Huidian", the Qing court set up eighteen ice cellars in the capital, which were managed by the Capital Water Department of the Ministry of Works, collectively known as the official cellars, and the ice cubes here were provided to the court or the official government. As for the "snow mound" worthy of artificial cooling of the house, so the house is not particularly hot, plus there are cool mats and ice cubes, which can also dispel the heat.
Such treatment, the average person really can not enjoy, we can be born in the era of air conditioning, it is a great fortune!