Introduction: In the eighth month of the lunar calendar, what is the omen of thunder, the old saying "August thunder, drought one hundred and eight" has a saying.
Unconsciously, it was august of the lunar calendar, and after the white dew festival, the weather cooled down significantly, and the rainfall began to gradually decrease, and the more obvious phenomenon was that the thunder was basically not heard. Each season of the year has a different natural phenomenon, the summer is thunderous, and in the autumn the lightning and thunder weather basically disappears. But there are no absolutes, sometimes there will be abnormal meteorological phenomena, abnormal meteorological occurrences, generally there will be abnormal weather next.
After entering the eighth month of the lunar calendar, according to the rural saying, there should be no more thunder, if there is thunder in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, it is an abnormal weather, it is likely that there will be drought and lack of rain in the back, therefore, there is a saying in the countryside that "august thunder, drought one hundred and eighteen".
For the majority of peasant friends, what they hope is more that the wind and rain will be smooth, so as to promote a bumper agricultural harvest, and everyone's life will be better. In the past, farmers basically relied on the sky to eat, if the weather conditions are not good, or there are natural disasters, then then there will be famine, so farmers have to pay attention to weather changes.
In the absence of weather forecasts at that time, people relied on life experience, according to the weather conditions of certain seasons or seasons, speculating about what the weather would be in the future, although this was only a probabilistic thing, but everyone had a good prevention, and maybe they really encountered it or prepared in advance.
Just like this old rural saying that "thunder in August, a great drought of one hundred and eighteen", that is to say, after the eighth month of the lunar calendar, if there are often thunder attacks, it is not a good omen, which is considered to indicate that there may be a drought of 180 days in the future, which is equivalent to the meaning of nearly half a year of drought.
Although 180 days is just an exaggeration, but even if it does not rain for several months, crops can not grow normally, now the irrigation measures of agriculture are perfect, but in the past agricultural production did not have this condition, farmers look forward to being able to adjust the wind and rain every year, it is conceivable that once there is a few months of drought and lack of rain, the consequences are very serious.
Of course, due to the vast territory of our country, the climate of various places is very different, this rural proverb of "thunder in August, one hundred and eighteen droughts" does not adapt to every place, so it cannot be generalized, and it is possible that in other places in the countryside, I have not heard such a proverb about speculating on the weather, but there are also different sayings in various places.
Regarding the phenomenon of thunder in different seasons, in the local countryside of Heze, Shandong, in my hometown, there is a saying that "no thunder is struck in the spring, and there are thieves everywhere in the thunder", this proverb seems to be about the relationship between thunder and attracting thieves, in fact, this is also a proverb that predicts the weather, and people who do not know its connotation are really difficult to see the meaning of its expression literally.
Spring and winter convergence, there is also very little thunder phenomenon, once the weather is abnormal, the spring thunder weather, often indicates that there is a high possibility of "spring cold" weather. In my hometown, there is a general habit of planting winter wheat, although winter wheat is resistant to frost in winter, but the cold resistance is greatly reduced after returning to green in spring, and serious spring cold often leads to a reduction in wheat production, and even a harvest is possible.
Cold spring weather has occurred from time to time in recent years, and it has indeed brought losses to farmers who plant winter wheat, and now that the living conditions in the countryside are better, whether the crop yield is reduced or not will not have much impact on the peasants, but before it was different, in the past the peasants were completely dependent on agriculture, and if the grain production was reduced or the harvest was cut off in large quantities, they would face hunger.
When people are hungry, they will steal everywhere in order to survive, that is, "thieves everywhere". The rural proverb "No thunder in the spring, thunder is everywhere for thieves" is that spring thunder is prone to cold spring, which leads to a decrease in grain production and finally an increase in the number of thieves.
There are many proverbs about weather forecasting, which are also the experiences summed up by people in life in the past, and they are the crystallization of the wisdom of their predecessors, of course, now that there are more scientific weather forecasts, the rural proverbs that have been handed down have gradually been ignored, but some sayings still have certain reference significance.
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