In Liu Jin's hometown, Liu Jin was leisurely drinking tea and reading the newspaper.
There are really not many things you can do when you are truly free, especially in ancient times when entertainment options are relatively scarce, so you can only read books and write.
Occasionally there is a football match, and you can go to Tianjin to watch the match, or watch a drama or something.
At this time, drama was in its golden age of rapid development. With the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, drama also began to develop rapidly, and many genres and singing styles gradually evolved.
As the most prosperous and affluent area in the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing-Tianjin area was naturally the place where famous drama troupes from all over the Ming Dynasty competed to perform. Masters appeared in large numbers, and new works were frequently unveiled, which was deeply loved by the people.
Often a theater performance is almost always full, and when the singing is beautiful, the stage is filled with silver coins, copper coins, silver tickets, etc. as rewards.
Huge profits have also stimulated the development of theater troupes and the theater industry. There are theater troupes in almost all cities. On weekends, there are many performances and a large number of people watching.
Even now, dramas have begun to spread to all parts of the world, such as Korea, Japan, and Siam, the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. Needless to say, it goes without saying.
They are learning from the people of the Ming Dynasty in almost all aspects, not only learning the language and characters of the Ming Dynasty, but also learning everything about their life habits.
Drink tea, read newspapers, watch football, watch dramas, etc. Drama is also very popular in these countries, and local drama troupes have also been born to perform relevant performances based on their own history and culture.
Before television and the Internet, the charm of drama was irresistible. People of all ages and genders liked to watch it. It was extremely popular and was enjoyed by both refined and popular people.
In addition, there is football. Since Liu Jin introduced the sport of football, it has quickly become popular all over the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention the Beijing and Tianjin areas, just in Liu Jin’s hometown, there are many football fields in every small town, and in larger villages.
Each has its own football field.
The land that was once extremely precious is now used directly to build football fields, which shows that the people of Ming Dynasty now live a very prosperous life, and they also have enough land to play this sport.
Liu Jin also likes to watch dramas and football matches, but most of the time he still reads books and newspapers at home.
There is no way, Liu Jin's identity is here, he is the center of attention no matter where he goes, and countless eyes from both the government and the public are still staring at him.
Not long ago, someone impeached me, saying that he was an unfilial son. During the period of observing filial piety, he also traveled around, went fishing, and even brought his two wives with him. He must have done a lot of bad things.
Damn, this is really a nitpick.
If you really follow the instructions in the book to observe filial piety, then you really don’t want to live anymore.
Who can bear to stay next to the thatched cottage on the mountain every day, being exposed to the wind and sun, being able to only eat vegetarian food, and not being able to have sex with women?
It's not one month or two months, it's three years. It's nothing if you don't eat meat for three years. If you don't touch your woman for these three years, if you can bear it, your wife will be full of complaints.
So, it's better to go out less often, close the door at home, and do whatever you want, who knows.
"Even the Bohai Sea is completely frozen, making it impossible to go fishing."
Liu Jin looked at the newspaper, then looked at the heavy snow outside. It was another heavy snowfall, really heavy.
This immediately reminded Liu Jin of the heavy snowfall in the winter of the 11th year of Hongzhi. It was also a very heavy snow. The thick snow was nearly dozens of centimeters deep. It froze countless people to death, and at the same time caused
The following year there was a great famine in the three northern provinces.
"It's snowing too much!"
Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, Liu Jin soon felt that the snow seemed a little different. The goose-feather-like snow fell very heavily, almost blocking his sight. The sky and the earth were completely white, and he could originally see
The sea surface is also covered with ice.
Looking at the snow outside the window, it seems to be dozens of centimeters deep, but the snow still has no intention of stopping.
Such heavy snow is really rare.
"It's already snowing like this in Northern Zhili. Liaodong, the grasslands, the Western Regions, the northwest, the black soil, and several Central Asian provinces are probably going to encounter a severe winter."
Liu Jin frowned.
Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and there are many areas with high dimensions. The dimension of Beizhili is not that high. However, there is still such a heavy snowfall, which means that the situation in other places is very likely to be more serious.
Thinking of this, Liu Jin also went directly outside. Suddenly, a cold wind roared in. When it blew on his face, it stung like a knife. Feeling the temperature again, it was really cold.
"Minus 25 degrees!"
Liu Jin found a thermometer and measured the temperature. He was stunned. The temperature reached minus 25 degrees, which was too cold.
The thermometer in Liu Jin's hand is the same as the thermometers of later generations. They are both made of mercury vacuum glass tubes. Zero is the temperature of the ice-water mixture. It is also used to test human body temperature in the same way as later generations.
This means that the temperature of minus 25 degrees is the same as the data of later generations, and it is really that cold.
"What's going on? It's so cold. It's almost fatal."
Liu Jin tried hard to recall that there will be weather forecasts every day in later generations, but since records began, it has never been so cold in Beizhili. It can be as cold as minus 25 degrees. This is only when it snows. When the snow melts
It is estimated that it will be even colder.
"The Little Ice Age!"
Soon, Liu Jin thought of one thing, that is, the Ming Dynasty was at the beginning of the Little Ice Age. The Little Ice Age in history was mainly in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.
But the entire Little Ice Age actually spanned a very long time, lasting almost more than 200 years.
Starting from the Hongzhi Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty and continuing to the Jiaqing Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the entire period of more than 200 years belonged to the Little Ice Age.
"Jiangnan Tongzhi" records a lot of relevant content. In the 12th and 15th years of Emperor Xiaozong's reign in the Ming Dynasty, the winter was extremely cold, and even the Qiyang River and Yuyao River froze.
Even according to the records of "History of the Ming Dynasty", in the fourth year of Jingtai, that is, 1453, from November to Mengchun in the winter, there was heavy snow several feet deep in Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, North and South Zhili, Jianghuai and other areas.
Even the sea surface in Huaidong, that is, the Yellow Sea, was frozen for more than 40 miles, and countless people and animals froze to death.
In the fifth year of Jingtai's reign, there was heavy snowfall in all the prefectures south of the Yangtze River for forty years. Countless people froze to death in Suzhou and Changzhou.
In other words, during the Jingtai period, it snowed continuously for more than a month in the Suzhou area in the south of the Yangtze River. Everyone couldn't believe this weird weather, right?
This is a clear record of history, and there are also some related records in local chronicles in various places.
There is also a clear relevant record in "Guangdong General Chronicles". In the first year of Zhengde, in the winter here in Qiongzhou Prefecture, Guangdong (that is, the thick Hainan Province), snow kept falling for thousands of miles, and it snowed heavily in Hainan.
By the winter of the fourth year of Zhengde, the snow in Chaozhou could reach several feet thick. That is to say, in the Chaozhou and Chaoyang areas of Guangdong, which are typically subtropical areas, the snow could actually fall several feet thick.
It was so thick that it showed how cold the weather was at that time.
According to historical records, in winter, there is almost always heavy snowfall. Major lakes in the south such as Taihu Lake, Poyang Lake, and Dongting Lake are all frozen, and ordinary people can fish on the lakes.
The condition is the same as Chagan Lake in later generations. In winter, winter fishing activities can be carried out on it. However, in ancient times, no one would release bathing fish.
In addition, extreme and strange weather such as 'summer cold', 'summer frost', and 'summer snow' also occur frequently, and have even become extremely normal.
All of this was during the Little Ice Age, and the whole process lasted for more than 200 years, with the most severe period occurring in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
During that period, the Ice Age was at its most powerful.
In the midsummer of June and July in Liaodong, strong frost weather occurred, which caused the farming in Liaodong to be almost completely destroyed. This was also one of the important reasons why the Ming Dynasty was unable to develop Liaodong on a large scale in history. Such weather
It is simply not suitable for farming.
Even Jiangxi, Nanzhili and other southern provinces will experience the phenomenon of falling snow in summer, which shows the terrifying scene during the worst period of the Little Ice Age, and the weather was extremely weird.
At the same time, the Little Ice Age was also accompanied by some related natural disasters, such as drought. This kind of drought does not mean that it does not rain for several months and there is no harvest for a year.
Instead, there have been droughts for several consecutive years. Even during the most terrifying period of the ice age, during the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, there was even an unprecedented ten-year drought, and all kinds of rivers and lakes were destroyed.
Everything has dried up, and even the main trunk of the Yellow River has stopped flowing.
In addition, forget about the drought, and it is not just a drought in one or two provinces. In the entire northern region, as many as a dozen provinces have experienced droughts for several consecutive years at the same time. The drought has rapidly spread from the Yellow River Basin to the whole country, and has lasted for several years.
In the farming era, such a situation was almost a fatal disaster. According to historical records, almost all vegetation in Henan Province at that time was dry, and animal skins were edible for insects and ants.
The most terrifying situation in Shaanxi Province is even worse. Even if there is money in the market in the city, it is no longer possible to buy food. People eat wood bark, exchange children for food, and kill each other.
The natural result was that the land was full of hunger, the people were in dire straits, and wars broke out everywhere. The peasant uprisings in the late Ming Dynasty almost never stopped.
PS: If it’s the Little Ice Age, it’s almost going to snow now~
