What was the earliest recorded earthquake in China?
The earliest earthquake in history was recorded in the bamboo annals, and * * * recorded four earthquakes, of which the first two occurred at the end of the Xia Dynasty in17th century BC, and the first one was the Taishan earthquake in the seventh year of Fadi (about BC 183 1 year). The other time was in the summer of ten years (about BC 1809) of Gui (the son of Fadi), when the five stars staggered, the meteor shower in the night, and Ilo (Yishui and Luoshui in Henan) was exhausted. The chronology of bamboo slips is said to have been taken out of Wei Xiangwang's tomb by Jin Taikang in the second year. This is a chronicle inscribed on bamboo slips with official script, from the Yellow Emperor to the twenty-second year of Wei Xiangwang (279 BC). This is the earliest chronicle of China, and the original work has long been lost. "The chronicles of bamboo books, which have been popular since the Ming Dynasty, are regarded as fake books by later generations and are called this edition. Later, Wang Guowei and others collected the contents inherited from various ancient books, and restored them to become a revised version of the Chronicle of Ancient Bamboo Books. Although the authenticity of the ancient version and the present version is controversial, some people doubt that the recorded earthquake may not be credible, but the time and place of the earthquake recorded in the book have already existed, so the mysterious superstition of the ancients about earthquakes cannot be forged, and it must be based on facts, so the records will be kept. In addition, the so-called fake book means that it is no longer the original, not that what is recorded in the book is fake. Therefore, in summer, the "Taishan earthquake in the seventh year of Emperor Huang" should be the earliest earthquake record in China.