Gossip | Why is the typhoon called "Typhoon"

According to media reports, Typhoon "Plum Blossom" No. 12 this year will land on the coast of Wenling from Wenling, Zhejiang from the afternoon of the 14th to night. Everyone is familiar with typhoons. Before the typhoon comes, everyone has received a notice for a long time to take good offset measures. So, in ancient times, how did the ancients resist when the typhoon was scratched?

In ancient times, people often referred to strong winds as "big wind", "hurricane", "飚 在", and the word "typhoon" was a word that had only been available in the past 200 years. Wang Shizhen, a literati in the Qing Dynasty, said: The wind is high and the strong is a hurried, and even the stage. Hurled out, often day and night. In other words, typhoons are more violent than hurricanes and last time.

So why is this style called "Taiwan"? Some people say that typhoons are generated in the Western Pacific Sea near Taiwan, so they are called "Taiwan". In fact, the "Taiwan" of Typhoon is different from the "Taiwan" sounds of Taiwan Island. It's just a "Taiwan".

Some scholars have verified that the word "typhoon" should be from English translation. In English, the tropical storm generated on the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean is called Typhoon. When translating it into Chinese, it takes its sound and translates it into a "typhoon".

However, there is a problem here. The geographical location of the United Kingdom does not belong to the area where the tropical marine storm occurs. There are no such natural disasters. Why can they enter such a word to China that often encountered typhoons?

Scholars Wang Wenbin and Shao Bin believe that English vocabulary Typhoon is actually not an English vocabulary. It is only produced by the "big wind" in Cantonese. In Cantonese, large -level wind disasters are called "big winds", Cantonese pronunciation: TAI FUNG. 200 years ago, the first British missionary Robert Mariezon, who came to China, compiled a copy of "Guangdong Province", which included the word "big wind" and marked Cantonese pronunciation. He also inferred that he said that he said that The source of English Typhoon is Cantonese "Great Wind".

The word "typhoon" came out like this. Summary: First of all, there is a TAI FUNG, and English creates Typhoon accordingly. After translating it into Chinese, the word "typhoon" is finally formed.

The first word of Typhoon entered the Chinese world was in 1864. On July 16 of that year, there was a strong wind on the top of Victoria in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong newspaper at the time reported it.

Jiangcun Fengyu Tuming · Lu Wenying

In ancient times, without the current scientific and technological means, how did the ancients resist the typhoon? In fact, the ancients did "special research" on typhoons very early. In preventing the wind, the ancients would look at the wind and see the sky:

Look at the wind. The Tang people concluded: "Hurricanes will be sent, there are breeze and drizzle, and they are slow and then anxious, which is called refining wind." As soon as the refining wind, people should prepare to resist the storm.

Look at the sky. "Ling Table Records" contains: "In the summer and autumn, there are halo like a rainbow, which is called the hurricane." This is an experience in the summary of the sky meteorological summary by the fishermen in the coastal areas of Fujian.

Look at the sea. "The bottom of the sea is full of wind", the sea surface is calm, and the moon shadow is reflected in the sea. At this time, do n’t spend a month before drinking a poem, or hurry up and clean up, how far you can hide.

In order to resist the wind, the ancients wanted to do their best. They built sea ponds, planted wind -proof forests, and also built drainage facilities to reduce blockage to reduce economic losses and ensure life safety. These measures also achieved certain results.

Storm and rain return to the boat, Fang Congyi

But after all, the ancients can use too few means, so the wind brings them a lot of losses.

According to "Suzhou Local Chronicle", "Three Kingdoms (Wu) Taiping in the first year (256 years), August Shuo, the wind was unplugged, Taihu was overflowing, and the flat water was 8 feet high. In the second year of Tang Changqing (822) Riding the boat in the same way. In the four years of Tang Changqing (824), the Taihu Lake overflowed. "After the wind comes, the trees and houses are destroyed. What is more terrible is that Taihu Water will also overflow to form a flood, and flat ground can travel.

In 1665, a wind disaster occurred in Gaoyou County, Jiangsu Province. "Dongtai County, July 3rd, the hurricane masterpiece, folding trees and trees, the tide of sea tide, drifting the pavilion house, and tens of thousands of men and children in the death stove."

In 1696, Wu County, Jiangsu, "On July 23rd, the wind was full of wind, the rain was pouring, the sky was dark, the trees in the mountains were destroyed for hundreds of years, and the water soared overnight. The wind of the northeast of the day, the rainy tide, the drifting of the people, the deceased is very crowded. On July 23, the sea overflowed with the wind and rain without decrease the June. "

In addition, in 1724, 1781, 1854, and 1905, typhoons threatened the Yangtze River Delta region.

Source: Yangtze Evening News Zi Niu News Micro Historical Records

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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