Which dynasty in China's history do you think suffered the most?
If civil strife and Xianbei invasion are added, it can be said that the Eastern Han Dynasty was not peaceful. It was under the constant attack of natural and man-made disasters that the people were finally cornered and the Yellow Scarf Uprising broke out.
The yellow turban insurrectionary uprising finally subsided. From the ninth year of Jian 'an (2004) to the twenty-fourth year of Jian 'an (2 19), another greater plague occurred. Cao Zhi wrote in Yi Shuo: Every household has a bone headache, and there are cries and sobs in the house, or the door is closed and the family is buried. ? . In Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, once recalled: There are more than 200 households and many others. Since Jian 'an, it has been less than ten years since Jian 'an, two thirds of them have died, and typhoid fever accounts for seven. Even? Seven sons of Ji' an? Xu Gan, Chen Lin, Ying Yi and Serina Liu also died of the plague.
If the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty itself is the chief culprit of its demise, then the continuous natural and man-made disasters in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty are the last straw to crush the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Ming Dynasty: Disasters occurred frequently during the Little Ice Age, and the plague lasted for more than ten years.
We know that the late Ming Dynasty was in the Little Ice Age, and the weather began to turn cold rapidly, especially from the eighth year of Wanli (1580) to the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644). How cold is it? According to statistics, its coolness is the second in 10,000 years, and it can rank among the top six or seven in 1 million years. Some people even say that this is the coldest period since mankind entered civilization.