You don’t know Fujian ｜ Fuzhou Yantai Mountain has been snowing more than ten centimeters thick

On January 16, 1893, Yantai Mountain snow scene.

More than a hundred years ago, Yantai Mountain was snowing more than ten centimeters thick. Have you ever seen such a scene?

Recently, Zheng Qiaopeng, a history teacher of Chaoyang Middle School, Changle District, Fuzhou, commissioned friends to find many old photos around Fuzhou's "Minjiang Heart" more than a hundred years ago from the French National Library, including Wanshouqiao, Zhongzhou Island, Yantai Mountain, etc. Essence One of the photos of Yantai Mountain snow scenes is particularly rare. The thick snow in the photo confirms the existence of the "Ming and Qing Dynasties".

The ship gathered in the Minjiang River near Wanshou Bridge.

The photographers of these photos were Chinese customs officials and French-Beniel Henry in the Qing Dynasty. He traveled to Fuzhou, Xiamen and other places to take a lot of photos. After the death of Naer Henry, these photos were donated to the French National Library by his wife.

There is a text description on Yantai Mountain Snow Scenery: "On January 16, 1893, after the snowstorm near the tomb pavilion."

In the photo, the snow is more than ten centimeters deep. Zheng Qiaopeng and Yantai Mountain scholars studied and confirmed that this is the scenery of the Yantai Mountain Tomb Pavilion. The building in the upper left corner of the photo is the old Yantai Shan French consulate.

It can be known that on January 16, 1893 (November 29, 1893) indicated by the photo, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang played to the court: "Fujian Province has not seen the snow in the winter, or occasionally landed on the ground. Hua, from those who have no snow thickness. On November 28, the 18th year of Guangxu, the wind was cold on November 28th, and the snow was colorful at night.

It means that Fujian has never snow in winter, and occasionally snowfall is disappeared, and there are never a few inches deep. On January 15, 1893, the North Wind whistled temperature and the temperature flies at night. On the 16th, the average snow was more than ten centimeters on average. Yantai Mountain Snow scene was recorded on January 16, 1893 in the scene of ten centimeters deep in Fuzhou.

The new appearance of Yantai Mountain, Fuzhou History and Culture Zone.

Zhu Kezhen, a modern meteorologist and geographical scientist, pointed out -several significant small ice periods in Chinese history are in the late Shang Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty, the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the early Western Jin Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, the early Northern Song Dynasty, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. period. Yantai Mountain Snow Scenes confirmed the existence of the "Xiaoding period of the Ming and Qing Dynasties".

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