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There are many natural disasters in the north, such as sandstorm, locust plague, drought, flood (mainly the Yellow River), earthquake and so on.

For example:

1556 65438+1On October 23rd, a strong earthquake of magnitude 8 occurred in hua county. This earthquake is an extremely serious disaster in China's historical records, and the number of deaths is rare at all times, at home and abroad. The earthquake damaged 10 1 county, covering about 280,000 square kilometers in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Shanxi and Henan provinces. The earthquake was felt in 227 counties in 5 provinces. The epicentre is Weinan, hua county, Huayin, Tongguan, Chaoyi and Yongji counties in Shaanxi Province, about 2,700 square kilometers east of xi. The earthquake damage is extremely serious. Houses, government agencies, temples and academies are in ruins; Stronger buildings, towers, pagodas and palaces all collapsed. The earthquake caused Maqiao fault in Huayin county in the west, and the ground fissure in Dayuan village in the north of the city was several feet, and the water gushed several feet. The purple microscope in the south of Dali County and Taibaichi in the southwest of Chaoyi County dried up after the earthquake. The great customs clearance on the south bank of the Yellow River and the Zhou Pu levee all collapsed. The stone spring in Fenggu Mountain in hua county has turned into a dry spring. According to county records, the death toll caused by the earthquake is about 830,000.

Drought in North China in the Early Years of Guangxu

This drought is characterized by a long time, a wide range and particularly serious consequences. From 1876 to 1879, the drought lasted four years. The affected areas are Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Zhili (now Hebei), Shandong and other five northern provinces, and spread to northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, eastern Gansu and northern Sichuan. The drought in the early morning not only failed agricultural products, but also made the countryside barren. Hungry people carry the road, white bones are full of wild ",and the number of people who starve to death reaches10 million! Because the droughts are mainly in 1877 and 1878, and these two years of the lunar calendar belong to Ding Chou and Wuyin, people call them "Ding Wu Qi Huang". Because the drought in Henan and Shaanxi is the most serious, it is also called "Qi Huang today" and "Great Famine today". With the development of drought and the exhaustion of edible things, the tragedy of "cannibalism" occurred. In the winter of the third year of the drought (1877), the phenomenon of cannibalism was everywhere in Shanxi, the hardest hit area. People who eat human flesh and sell human flesh abound. Some people eat dead human flesh, some people kill old people or children alive ... ruthless drought demons turn the disaster area into a hell on earth! From 1876 to 1878, there were 222 counties, 402 counties and 33 1 counties in Shandong, Shanxi, Zhili, Henan and Shaanxi provinces respectively. The number of residents seriously affected by drought and famine in the whole disaster area is estimated to be around1.600 million to 200 million, accounting for about half of the national population at that time; The number of people who died directly from famine and plague was around 1 10,000; At least 20 million people fled the worst-hit areas (see Li Wenmei and others' Ten Famines in Modern China).

176 1 17 August, 18 June (July 18th and 19th, 26th year of Qianlong), catastrophic floods occurred in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. After years of historical research, the floods mainly come from the Yihe River, Luohe River and Qinhe River in Sanmenxia to Huayuankou section of the Yellow River and the small tributaries that directly flow into the Yellow River, and there are many outlets in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. 176 1, the peak flow of Huayuankou section is 32,000m3/s ... Luo Yi and the cities in the lower reaches of Qinhe River are being hit by floods. The whole beach area of Luo Yi River from Luoyang to Yanshi is more than ten feet deep. Yanshi, Gongyi, Qinyang, Wuzhi and Xiuwu are also flooded cities with water depths ranging from five or six feet to more than ten feet. According to the memorial of the governor of Henan at that time, ten counties in Henan were flooded and another sixteen counties were flooded. "

People are fragile in front of nature, so we should cherish everything now.