Fun fact: Will it definitely rain during Qingming Festival?

"During the Qingming Festival, rain falls heavily, and pedestrians on the road are heartbroken"

Du Mu wrote a thousand-year-old "prophecy" in poetry

But is this "prophecy" really accurate? Will it rain during Qingming Festival?

You should know that at that time Du Mu was the governor of Chizhou, Anhui, and Chizhou belonged to the Jiangnan area.

In April every year, the cold front from Siberia in the north and the summer wind from the Pacific Ocean,

Two air forces are fighting in the Yangtze River Basin, evenly matched.

It is naturally easy for precipitation to occur, and the frontal zone formed swings back and forth in this area, and the rain area basically moves back and forth in the south.

Therefore, the heavy rains during the Qingming Festival that we have been familiar with since childhood is actually more in line with the climatic characteristics of the south of the Yangtze River.

There is not much rain during the Qingming Festival in northern China.

For example, in Hebei, based on the meteorological data of the past 30 years,

During the Qingming Festival, the average rainfall is only 10 mm.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe it as "the rain stops during the Qingming Festival"~