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In 1622, the temperature warmed up, and it snowed heavily in Shucheng, Anhui Province, and the winter and spring were deep, and the poor people froze to death.

In 1624, Lulong, Qian'an, and Yutian in Hebei Province, looked at the autumn and August, and the people froze to death due to heavy wind and rain. Pingxiang, heavy snow in spring. Shanxi Changzhi winter, smooth heavy snow for three days and nights, the tree is broken. Shandong Wendeng, Rongcheng, Ruixue three feet.

In 1628, Shanghai Songjiang saw snow for three consecutive years. Shaanxi winter wood ice, Huxian, Zhouzhi, no rain in the dogs, heavy snow in winter, cattle and sheep die. Suide, Yulin, Yan'an, December, grass and trees winter. It was cold in many places in the south of the Yangtze River, and in winter, the fish in the pond and river froze to death. The fish pickers in Xiantao, Hubei Province also froze to death.

In 1630, it was cold, and there was heavy rain and hail in many places. Guangji, Hubei, heavy snow and thunder; When the sun is shining, there are tigers devouring people.

In the great cold of 1631, snow and hail froze people and animals to death. In November, the river ice can be crossed.

In 1632, the weather was cold, and there was a lot of water in the north and south. Zhenjiang and Danyang, Jiangsu, the weather is very cold in June, and there are many people wearing cotton.

In 1633, there was heavy snow in Xinhai in the first month of Beijing, and it was more than two zhang deep. Jiangsu Gaochun, winter tree ice into armor, the more ten to solve. In Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, the snow covers from October to the first month of the following year, the road is cut off, and the dead are not counted. In the winter and October of Henan, the Yellow River is frozen like a stone, and there are more than 20 thieves in Ding Mao (the eighth day of the first month), and they cross by ice, if they don't know that there is the Yellow River. Yu County, winter is different and snowy.

In 1634, there was a great drought in Jiangxi, Henan and Yunnan. Millions of wild mice in Anhui cross the river from the north to the south. Shandong Licheng, Changle, Anqiu, Huaifang, spring rain and snow. Linyi, Juxian, heavy snow in September. Hail in April in many counties in Jiangsu. Zhejiang Dashui. Heavy snow in the first month of Hangzhou. Conghua, Shaoguan, Lechang, Renhua, Dapu, Wuhua, Xingning, Guangdong, heavy snow for several days in the first month; The snow in Conghua and Shaoguan is one or two feet deep.

In 1635, there was a drought in the north and water in the south, and locusts were everywhere, and there was a great hunger in many places. In December, the Hujian River in Shanxi formed an ice bridge, and the Yellow River began to freeze like a stone in Henan.

In the summer of 1638, there was a locust in Liangjing. Liangjing and Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Hainan, severe drought and locusts. Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou water. Hunan is cold and freezing.

In 1639, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, and Zhejiang, experienced great drought, locusts, and famine. In August, Baishui, Tonggong, Luonan, and Longxi Zhuyi, thousands of miles of rain and hail, half a day was stopped, and Tian He was damaged. Fujian, Guangdong water.

In May 1640, there was a great drought in Beijing, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, and a great drought of locusts, a great famine, and a great famine. Zhejiang, Sanwu hunger. From Huai to the north to the south of Jinan, the bark is eaten up.

In 1641 there was a great drought, locusts, famine, chaos, and cannibalism.

1642 Drought, locusts, water, plague.

In 1643, the epidemic lasted thousands of miles from north to south, from the north to the outside of the Saiwai, and to the south of the Yellow River. Shandong, East Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Dongduo thunderstorms. There is a great drought in Hunan and Yunnan, and a great flood in Guangdong.

Here, there are two points that need to be explained, first, the cause of the cold weather at the end of the Ming Dynasty is not only natural meteorological changes, but also the factors that people today say "haze" weather (dust). In fact, smog is not unique to today's weather, and severe smog can cause the weather to cool down. In the first half of the 17th century, the frequency of "rain and soil" in China and the winter temperature index in the same period formed a huge "scissors difference", during which the number of "rain and soil" and the winter low temperature index reached the maximum since 1500. Second, the sudden cold weather at the end of the Ming Dynasty was also related to the change of sunspots during the same period. "When sunspots are present, the temperature rises, and when the sunspots disappear, the temperature drops." Dr. Will Soon, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, found that "no sunspots were observed from 1645 to 1715. This is known as the Xiaoice Age. From 1420 to 1644, when the Ming Dynasty died, the world experienced the Spoole Minimum51 and the Mondstadt Minimum,52 when there were fewer sunspots, and China became colder and colder, as was the case with the global climate. Zhang Juzheng's reform coincided with the transition from the "Spoole Minimum" to the "Mondstadt Minimum" in the "warm" zone, and the Ming Dynasty appeared at the bottom of the latter period, namely the "Mondstadt Minimum", which was the period when the number of sunspots was the lowest and the temperature was extremely cold, (see Figure 4) During the same period, there was also an unprecedented and tragic "Thirty Years' War" (1618~1648) in which almost all major European countries were involved.

In 1644, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng was proclaimed king in Xi'an, and the country name was Dashun. In March, he entered Beijing. On March 19, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself and died in the Ming Dynasty. That year, the temperature in the Ming Dynasty also dropped to the lowest point since the Han Dynasty. During this period, China's feudal society of more than 2,000 years was also approaching its end. Mr. Wang Rongzu commented on the reasons for the death of the Ming Dynasty from the perspective of "heavenly time": Chongzhen Cheng is not the king of the fallen country, and the ministers may not be deeply mistaken about his king. The mutations of nature and their irresistible power are beyond the power of a drop in the ocean that human beings can spin.