In ancient times, there have been people who watch the moon and watch the stars, but have you seen the clouds in the sky?
The writer Xiao Hong once wrote the strange spirit of the cloud with an unbroken childlike heart, and she turned the light reflected by the evening fire cloud into a palette, changing the color of everything on the earth:
After dinner, the fire clouds came up. The big white dog turned red, the red rooster turned into gold, and the old man who fed the pig leaned against the wall and watched with a smile as his two little white pigs turned into little golden pigs. A cool man came to him and said, "Your old man must have a high life expectancy, you are always a golden beard." "
Yun is still a dramatist with the sky as a curtain, always rehearsing new plots on it: in a moment, a horse appears in the sky, the horse's head is facing south, and the horse's tail is west. The horse is on its knees, as if it had waited for someone to ride on its back before it stood up. After two or three seconds, the horse grew bigger, its legs stretched out, its neck long, its tail gone, and the watchers were looking for the horse's tail, and the horse became blurry.
Suddenly, a big dog came. The dog was fierce, running forward, and there seemed to be several puppies behind it. Running and running, the puppy did not know where to go, and the big dog was gone.
Unlike the writers' attentive observation, because clouds are so common, we often ignore them. But an Englishman, Gavin Prett-Pinney, has run the world after the clouds, and has set up a cloud appreciation association, which accommodates more than 40,000 members from more than 100 countries, and they call themselves "cloud collectors".
Handbook of The Cloud Collector
If clouds are paintings of the sky, gavin is the one who can read the artworks: "You can consider collecting everything you can, and collecting clouds sounds like the least interesting option." However, you are wrong. Collecting something is not the same as owning it. You don't even have to think about how to catch it. All you have to do is look at it, to record it. ”
Collecting clouds is not like collecting stamps, ancient calligraphy and paintings with a sense of physical presence in hand, nor is it interchangeable with people like collecting rare old books, but seeing different clouds enter the fluctuating air flow and spread out, the next moment you don't know what it will look like, maybe the moment you press the shutter, you take a picture of a cloud that is unique in the world, and such a collection of clouds is also full of surprising significance.
The clouds embody the fickleness of the world around us, they are cirrus and free, they will stand tall and build black cloud towers with eerie cloud bottoms; the next moment, the dark clouds will dissipate and turn into delicate translucent rib clouds. Then they leave – either pouring water out in the form of rain or evaporating and returning to the blue sky.
Compared to us who feel the pressure of being in the digital world, clouds are happy. The Cloud Collector will tell you that no matter where you are, looking up at the clouds is good for the soul.
"One Cloud a Day"
"One Cloud a Day" includes 365 kinds of clouds in the sky selected by the Cloud Appreciation Association, including clouds recorded by the "cloud collectors" around the world, even clouds overlooked from space, and the sky depicted by great artists hundreds of years ago. When viewing the clouds, you can also see the clouds under each picture or the poetry of the clouds.
Kentaro Araki, a Japanese writer who was a scientific advisor to Makoto Shinkai's animated film Weather Child, takes us from the perspective of a scientist to understand how the strange clouds we see every day are formed, how they are classified, and what do the different clouds indicate? What is aerosol rice scattering, Tyndall phenomenon?
The Truth About the Clouds
Kentaro Araki wrote hardcore atmospheric physics knowledge in an easy-to-understand way, giving him cute nicknames for professional terms: "Air Block Jun", "Slot Jun", "Visible Light Team", etc., which can even make you smile, which is the author's introduction to Guanyun for our ordinary readers.
If you want children to love life by observing the clouds, then this hand-drawn cloud map, which is more suitable for children aged 9-13, comes in handy. What is the cloud? How did they come about? What do clouds of different shapes have in common?
Hand-Painted Cloud Map
"Hand-painted Cloud Map" focuses on the classification of clouds, systematically classifies the seemingly endless clouds in the sky, tells the formation process and characteristics of various types of clouds, and is supplemented by realistic and delicate cross-page hand-drawn large maps to help young readers read each cloud. When you look up at the clouds, you also have the climate in the book.
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Interactive Q&A
Close your eyes, what shape are the clouds that appear in your mind?