How the ancients predicted the weather

1, combined with the festivals: twenty-four seasons of the year, and then according to their own weather changes in some of the experience, and then summed up a certain pattern of change in the weather. For example: "pimple cloud, sunshine death", "the morning sun does not go out, the evening sun line thousands of miles" and so on, some of the proverbs similar to the weather forecast.

2, China's earliest poetry "Poetry Classic" - "name of the wind - the north wind" has recorded the people's experience of watching the weather "the north wind of its cool, rain and snow its snow ...... the north wind of its eery music, rain and snow its Fay! ......" in the inside of the "rain and snow", on the roll of rain and snow grand appearance; and "harmonious music" is the description of the wind speed; The word "fay" refers to the flurry of rain and snow. The meaning of this verse is "the cold north wind blows to, the wind is strong, bring rain and snow is also big."

EXPANDED INFORMATION

1. According to some historical data, people began to try to predict the weather in some scientific ways during the Han Dynasty. For example, Lou Yuanli said in his book "The Five Elements of Tianjia" at the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, "If the dry and clean strings of good quality suddenly become loose and wide of their own accord, it is because the bed of the zither is damp; and the occurrence of such a phenomenon foretells that the sky is going to be cloudy and rainy."

2. By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was also an astronomer, Zhang Heng, who once invented the world's earliest wind instrument, the "Phase Wind Copper Bird", which is: on the open ground, set up a five-foot-high pole; on the pole, install On the pole, a copper bird can be rotated flexibly; then, according to the direction of rotation of the copper bird, and determine the direction of the wind blowing.