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It snows in Shanxi in April. Some people say that there must be grievances. What is the "April snow" in history?
Snow in April in history really exists, and it happened in the cold period. There are four cold periods in Chinese history. The first time was 1000 BC, that is, the Western Zhou Dynasty. This is the first cold period, but there is no historical record of these things. The second cold period is the park. Around the sixth century. It is the tacit understanding of the Western Han Dynasty. The third cold period was actually in the Song Dynasty. The fourth cold period is from the early Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty.

There are many snowstorms during the cold period. The earliest record is that hail killed many cattle and sheep, and even the river froze. Later, a strange snowstorm happened in the Han Dynasty. At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty met a wild animal called Kirin. But it snowed heavily that year and killed many people. Moreover, the heavy snow that year was said to be as thick as five feet, and March in the solar calendar was April. In fact, the rivers in the Central Plains were covered with a thick layer of ice and snowed heavily, causing people to have no food and even start eating people.

This happened in the Qin Dynasty. There is a man named Qin Zaogong. It was agitation that coined the word. I still don't understand what he did to get such a posthumous title. You know, Qi Xianggong who committed adultery with her sister doesn't even have this title. But it was because of the snow in June that he was given such a title in office?

Besides him, King Zhou Weilie also had heavy snow in Shanxi at that time, which was more than two thousand years ago. This is much heavier than the snow I have ever seen. Moreover, there is April snow in the south, which happened in Jiangsu during the Three Kingdoms period. It rained heavily at first, but it snowed the next day, which was May in the solar calendar. This is rare, because it doesn't snow in winter in the south.