It was April and the weather at the foot of the mountain was not bad. A group of people walked all the way to the mountain. The higher they go, the lower the temperature. When we reached the mountain, everyone was shivering with cold.
Shen Kuo, shivering in the cold wind, was suddenly enlightened. The peach blossoms on the mountain bloom late because the temperature is much lower than that under the mountain, so the flower season comes late. After Shen Kuo returned to China, he immediately recorded this important discovery. From then on, Shen Kuo became interested in meteorology, began to read books about meteorology, paid attention to meteorological changes, and determined to be a meteorologist.
2. With the support of Song Shenzong, Wang Anshi promoted political reform, and the new party came to power in North Korea. As the mainstay of the old school, Su Shi was sent to Hangzhou by Song Shenzong as the "second-in-command" judge.
Shen Kuo was sent to Hangzhou by Song Shenzong to supervise the political reform. After arriving at the place, he quickly collected new and old poems written by Su Shi. Later, these poems were sorted and classified, and the poems that were considered as libel were found out, annotated in detail, and handed over to the emperor after returning to Beijing.
Su Shi was jailed for "fooling the imperial court" and "having no sense of being a monarch or a minister", and even almost lost his life. Although he finally saved his life, he was demoted to Huangzhou, involving more than 30 relatives and friends of Su Shi, with more than one poem 100.
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Shen Kuo was an outstanding scientist and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty. Proficient in astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology, geography, agriculture and medicine.
At the age of one, he went south to Wuyishan and Jianyang in Fujian, and then lived in Youxi in Fujian. Injong Jia was a scholar in the eighth year (1063), and participated in Wang Anshi's political reform movement when he was in Zongshen. In the fifth year of Xining (1072), he was promoted to supervisor of Tianbu, and went to Zhejiang to inspect water conservancy and officers the following year.
In the eighth year of Xining (1075), he sent envoys to Liao to refute Liao's land claims. In the ninth year of Xining (1076), he served as a bachelor of Hanlin, with three powers to rectify the salt policy in Shaanxi. Later, Yanzhou (now Yan 'an, Shaanxi) was famous for strengthening its defense against Xixia.
He wrote dozens of books in his life, but only a few comprehensive collections, such as Changxing Collection and Prescription Science, have been circulated so far.
In Meng Qian's Notes, this scientific work written in the form of notes includes agriculture, water conservancy, astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, archaeology, language, history, literature, music, painting, finance and economics, etc., from natural science to social science.
Meng Qian Bi Tan is a masterpiece with rich contents, which can be said to be a collection of scientific achievements of predecessors. Known as "the coordinates in the history of science in China". It also occupies an important position in the history of world culture.
In the fifth year of Yuanfeng (1082), Song Jun was defeated by Xixia in the battle of Yongle City and was demoted. In his later years, he wrote Meng Qian Bi Tan in Meng Xi Park, Zhenjiang. Song Zhe died in the second year of Zong Shaosheng (1095).
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