According to the bamboo book Chronicle, there was a great earthquake during the reign of the Five Emperors. In the seventh year of Fadi, Mount Tai was shocked. The emperor here was angered by Shun Di, which means that there was an earthquake in Mount Tai when Shun was in power.
The same event was recorded in Bamboo Records. In the Xia Dynasty, there was also an earthquake. "Ten years after Emperor Gui, five stars were wrong, meteors rained at night, and earthquakes exhausted Elo".
The ghost emperor here refers to the tyrant Jie, which means that astronomy at that time was spectacular. Not only were there earthquakes, but the planets were in disorder, meteor showers appeared, and even the Yi River and Luohe River in Luoyang dried up very strangely.
In the pre-Qin period, people's understanding of earthquakes was based on primitive legends and nature worship, mixed with natural and supernatural factors. The original meaning of "earthquake" refers to lightning, which comes from lightning. In spring, mussels are called "Chen" as soon as they open their mouths. Add the word "rain" to the upper part of the word "Chen" to form an "earthquake". As the Zhouyi Shuo Gua Zhuan said, "Earthquakes are thunder and dragons."
China is a country with frequent earthquakes, with a history of more than 4,000 years. From BC 1 177 to AD 1969 * * (some data are inferred from historical data), there were 2097 earthquakes of magnitude 5 and above. Earthquakes of magnitude 8 and above have been recorded 18 times.
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The seismic activity in China is mainly distributed in the following five areas:
1, Taiwan Province Province and its adjacent waters;
2. Southwest China, including Tibet, central and western Sichuan and central and western Yunnan;
3. Western regions, mainly Hexi Corridor in Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and the northern and southern foothills of Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang;
4. North China, mainly on both sides of Taihang Mountain, Wei Fen Valley, Yinshan-Yanshan area, Luzhong and Bohai Bay;
5. Southeast coastal areas, Guangdong, Fujian and other places.
Baidu encyclopedia-earthquake
People's Daily Online-The earliest earthquake record in China was more than 4,000 years ago.