The air in the north is very dry in the winter.
If you don't pay attention to your clothes, you will be hit by static electricity, which can be quite painful sometimes.
The cat's hair suddenly exploded at home, which was also caused by static electricity.
Static electricity can be big or small.
During the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty, when the eunuch Wei Zhongxian was in power, a major disaster occurred in Beijing, killing nearly 20,000 people and destroying tens of thousands of houses.
It was caused by static electricity, earthquakes, gunpowder and gas explosions.
The result of the combined efforts of several parties was known as the "Big Explosion of Wang Gong Factory" in history.
It is said that the big explosion really shocked Wei Zhongxian at that time.
Two young eunuchs were killed by squatting beasts that fell from the corner of the palace in front of his eyes.
When Emperor Tianqi, who loved to do carpentry, ran out of the palace, his legs were weak and there was no one around him.
A guard took him and hurriedly hid somewhere else.
The guard's head was also knocked off the roof of the palace.
The thing that came down hit him so hard that his brains exploded.
Thousands of carpenters who were building palaces in the Forbidden City were knocked off their scaffoldings and smashed into pieces.
Even more strange things happened outside the city.
A large piece of wood flew directly to Miyun.
A stone lion weighing several thousand kilograms on Shihuma Street in Dongcheng was thrown outside Xuanwu Gate in Nancheng.
In the Chang'an Street area, countless half-heads fell down, some with half foreheads and noses.
Most of the ones that fell outside Desheng Gate, the north gate of the inner city, were arms and legs.
In the northern suburbs of Changping and Nanyuan, light objects such as money and clothes fell, and many clothes were also hung on the west mountain.
Correspondingly, there are many corpses or naked bodies of those who survived in the city.
In Jixian County, Tianjin, which is one hundred and eighty miles away from Beijing, two people were dug up from the ground and they were still alive.
When asked, it was as if they were dreaming, and they said they came from the capital.
The Wang Gong Factory at the center of the explosion was where gunpowder was stored at the time, and it was even more horrific.
According to the book, "several percent of the powder" is found within a dozen miles.
However, considering the power of black powder at that time, it is estimated that it is not as powerful as modern firecracker workshops.
It is not surprising that the center of the explosion is so strange.
How to explain the strange phenomena a little further away?
The Wanggongchang explosion, the Mohundazora Death Hill Incident in India, and the Tunguska explosion in Russia are known as the three mysteries of nature.
However, although the Dead Hill incident can detect ultra-high nuclear yield, it occurred 3,500 years ago, and the place where the Tunguska explosion occurred is inaccessible, making it even more difficult to draw conclusions.
The big explosion at Wang Gongchang occurred in the capital city at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Many literati and writers gathered here reported and recorded various abnormal phenomena before and after the explosion in various forms.
Some were absurd, and some were even careless.
Although he said nothing, he still left many clues for modern scholars to study.
Although the records at that time were mainly about the anecdotes after the Wanggong Factory explosion, there were also records before the explosion.
A few days before the explosion, there were inexplicably many bright lights like fireflies on the front building.
Before the explosion, they suddenly gathered into a wheel shape and headed southwest.
The most surprising thing was the Fire Temple in the East City.
In the middle of the night, music suddenly sounded, including drums, cymbals and other instruments, and fine music such as silk and bamboo.
It was played three times in a cycle.
The person in charge of the temple played it three times.
Frightened, I quickly opened the door to take a look.
As soon as the door opened, a large fireball staggered out, soared into the air in front of everyone, and headed straight to the southwest.
Not long after, the earth shook and there was a loud explosion.
Perhaps it was because of the warning from the God of Vulcan that although Emperor Tianqi later dismissed the Minister of Industry who was in charge of the gunpowder depot and the unlucky guy who lost both arms in the big explosion, he still had to resort to "sin" The imperial edict admitted that this was a natural disaster.
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Some seismologists have strongly proved that these fireballs and fire wheels are ball lightning formed by static electricity, and are caused by the turbulence of the atmospheric electrostatic field before the earthquake.
Even the sound of music that appeared at that time was not fabricated by the people in charge of the temple in order to shirk responsibility.
The sound of the ground, the light of the ground, and the static electricity were all strange precursors before the earthquake.
The sound must have been there, and the detailed description was probably the work of the literati at that time.
Add oil and vinegar.
Seismologists also boldly speculated that the crustal activity at that time had caused combustible gases to escape underground in the Wanggongchang area near Xuanwumen.
When the earthquake struck, the crust fractured and caused static electricity.
This is what people saw as the fireballs and wheels coming straight from Dongcheng.
Going southwest, igniting the flammable gases that had gathered on the ground, triggering an explosion in the powder magazine.
At that time, there were still frequent thunderclaps and tremors in the ground, and smoke and dust surged upwards.
It can be seen that a considerable amount of gas exploded from the ground during the big explosion.
The huge impact caused by the powerful gas shock wave not only caused several thousand kilograms of stone lions to fly outside the city, and large logs to fly into the dense clouds hundreds of miles away, but also caused some people in the city outside the central area of the explosion to lose all their clothes and their whole bodies.
Nakedness is a very strange phenomenon.
The greatest disaster in the history of Beijing was an unprecedented static electricity disaster caused by the combined force of earthquakes, gunpowder, and combustible gas static explosions.
It was strange because of its large scale and because of several factors that are rarely seen in ordinary times.
Twisted together.
No one can imagine that static electricity, which is usually just a slap in the face, can be so powerful when it breaks out: