Look at the sky with salt

"Looking at the sky with salt" is to judge whether there is a storm by whether salt makes a sound in the fire. Whether the salt block makes sound in the fire is related to the air humidity. If a storm is coming, the humidity of the salt will become high, and the salt will be wet, so there will be no sound when thrown into the fire.

The story of "Looking at the sky with salt"

The elders led the villagers to travel day and night, transporting salt to a place and replacing it with barley for the winter. That night, they camped in the wilderness and the stars shone. The elders used the method handed down by their ancestors to take out three pieces of salt and throw them into the campfire to predict the weather changes in the mountains.

Everyone is waiting for the old man's "weather forecast": if you hear the "click" sound of salt in the fire, it is a sign of good weather; If there is no sound, it means that the weather is about to get worse and the wind and rain will come at any time.

The elderly look serious because salt has no sound in the fire. He thought it was unlucky and advocated that it should be done immediately after dawn. However, another young man in the clan thinks that "peeping at the sky with salt" is superstition and opposes leaving in a hurry. Who knows that the next afternoon, as expected, the situation changed suddenly, and young people were in awe of the ancient wisdom of their ancestors.

How do people judge whether it will rain?

1. If you are near a pond, you can see whether the fish in the pond often reach the water surface. If so, it may rain. Because when it rains, the oxygen in the water will gradually decrease, and the fish will float to sleep and breathe the air.

2. Observe the ants on the ground. If the ants are moving, it proves that it is going to rain.

If you are in a mountainous area, it will rain soon if the clouds in the distant mountains have settled below the top of the mountain or even on the mountainside.