Role of the Summer Monsoon Variability in the Collapse of the Ming Dynasty: Evidences From Speleothem Records
Role of the Summer Monsoon Variability in the Collapse of the Ming Dynasty: Evidences From Speleothem Records
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DOI：
10.1029/2021gl093071
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发表时间：
2021-06
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Jingyao Zhao;Hai‐Rong Cheng;Yan Yang;Wen Liu;Haiwei Zhang;Xianglei Li;Hanying Li;Yassine Ait-Brahim;C. Pérez-Mejías;Xiaoli Qu
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作者：
Jingyao Zhao;Hai‐Rong Cheng;Yan Yang;Wen Liu;Haiwei Zhang;Xianglei Li;Hanying Li;Yassine Ait-Brahim;C. Pérez-Mejías;Xiaoli Qu
气候变化在社会重组中发挥了重要作用。特别是世纪末17世纪初，中国气候严寒，夏季风极弱，人口普遍减少。在这里，我们提出了新的洞穴氧同位素记录在中国北部和南部，这与历史文献相一致，使我们能够表征“晚明弱季风期”（LMWMP）在一个前所未有的年度时间分辨率。我们的分析表明，作为一个弱的夏季风事件，在中国近500年来，LMWMP的时空吻合晚明农民起义（1627-1658 CE），从而从明到清的过渡。这表明气候变化在塑造中国历史的重要篇章中扮演了一个看似合理的角色。此外，洞穴沉积物和历史文献都显示，LMWMP似乎是一个由北向南的时间海侵事件。
Climatic changes have played an important role in societal reorganizations. Particularly, the late 16th and early 17th century coincided with severely cold condition, extremely weak summer monsoon and widespread population decline in China. Here we present new speleothem oxygen isotope records across North and South China, which in concert with historical documents, allow us to characterize the “Late Ming Weak Monsoon Periods” (LMWMP) at an unprecedented annual temporal resolution. Our analysis suggests that as a weak summer monsoon event not seen for nearly 500 years in China, the LMWMP spatiotemporally coincided with the late Ming Dynasty peasant uprising (1627–1658 CE), and thus the transition from Ming to Qing Dynasty. This suggests a plausible role of climate change in shaping the important chapters of the Chinese history. In addition, both speleothem and historical documents reveal that the LMWMP appears to be a north to south time‐transgressive event on decadal‐timescale.