What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Beijing’s history?

We don’t know what Beijing’s thousand-year extreme cold will be like? "Meteorological expert Zhang Mingying said that Beijing's temperature records began in 1869 and have only been for 141 years. In these 141 years, Beijing's climate can be roughly divided into 11 stages, including 6 warm periods and 5 cold periods. We are currently in a warm period. It is obvious from these 11 stages that the warm climate period does not mean that all years in this period are warm. During the warm period, there were also cold years.

In the past few years, there have been relatively cold periods in Beijing. On December 4 and 5, 2008, the temperature in the Beijing plain area dropped by 10°C to 12°C for 48 hours. , was the strongest cold wave weather event in December since 1971. On December 22, 2008, a low temperature of -13.5°C occurred, which was the lowest temperature in December since 1986.

See "China Meteorology." "Disaster Ceremony Beijing Volume" can give a glimpse of the coldest period in Beijing in thousands of years. At that time, passersby even froze to death. According to historical records, on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month in the 12th year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1476), it suddenly became dark. The wind blew out all the lights at the suburban altar, and all the ceremony guards and music officials who were holding sacrifices at the southern suburbs http://www.dnfgua.in dnf Guaguawang froze to death. It can be seen that the weather was extremely cold at that time, just like the first year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty. (1567 AD) February 18th, “It was as cold as a dead winter, and there was a heavy snowstorm in the evening. In the nine gates of the capital, more than 170 people froze to death." In the same year, under Chongwen's sect, "the woman in the shoulder sedan (small sedan) and the child she held were all frozen to death. Both the husband and the bearer (carriage) were also servants, and he was frozen and could not revive" ("Wanli Yehuo Supplement"). In the Qing Dynasty, there were also several disasters in which people were killed by freezing cold, and they were also recorded in the state and county annals. .

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